Full Term
Script for ‘Full Term’ Video Film This is a plan for Sunday 15th December 2013. On the 15th December I will be full term. On this day I will cast my belly bronze. I will be 39. I will be … Continued
Author: Lena Simic
Lena Simic, performance practitioner and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool, UK. Co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, an art activist initiative run from her family home. Lena's autobiographical performance practice is informed by its relation to everyday lived experience, memory and fantasy.
Website: http://www.lenasimic.org100 Days with James
A Document of Maternity Leave (2014) Sunday 20.04.2014 100 Days Video Script: Baby James is 100 days old today, Easter Sunday. Rainy weather, he is to stay in whilst I go to church at Sveti Vlaho (St Blasius) and then … Continued
Friday Records
Friday Records: A Document of Maternity Leave Records of my time with James Benjamin, my Friday child. This is an ongoing arts project: text comprised of diary entries, audio and photographs by Lena Simc, artist/mother. My maternity leave started on 06.01.2014. … Continued
Sid pushing James
Sid pushing James during half-term in Stanley Park 19.02.2014
Birth Story: James Benjamin Anderson, 10.01.2014, 4:15am
10.01.2014 Gary and I were watching True Lies on Film Four 9pm to 11:30pm, with lots of commercials. It was very funny. I wondered if I would ever be sexy again. I started having irregular contractions, somewhat painful but not … Continued
Looking Back at 2013
31 12 2013 – 39w + 2 Today is its last day. A sense of relief. I only need to last one more day and I am out of 2013. My new baby needs to belong to 2014. A new … Continued
First Xmas in Anfield
25 12 2013 – 38w + 3 I have started re-reading To the Lighthouse again. So blue, in order to confirm the name James for the new baby. Christmas is on the TV. Sid is fast asleep, exhausted and beautiful. … Continued
2007 to 2013
Sunday 8th July 2007 Sunday 22nd December 2013 Mother: 32 years … Continued
Pink Sway turned out Blue
Gender swayed/swaying for: Pink but turned out Blue Yours and DH’s ages: 38, 40 Previous children (gender, ages, months TTC them): DS1 (12) one attempt one month, DS2 (10) one attempt one month, DS3 (5) one attempt one month. (all … Continued
12 week scan becomes 13 week scan
1 July 2013 We met today little baby. Your heartbeat was strong and you were very athletic twisting and turning, jumping around the womb, not listening to the sonographer (who seemed somewhat incompetent) and not allowing for measurements. My baby … Continued