Call for Young Female Activist Artist Peers
For a dinner party series hosted by me but made possible by you
A la Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, and countless other artists....
I wrote earlier about my desire to find peers who are working with social practice, .... people who are interested in social justice issues and who are finding a way to work with both art and activism. In the fall, I will be hosting a series of dinner parties set around the idea of finding my artistic community and connecting a new generation of female activist artists to their predecessors. I hope that by the end of the series, many of these young women will have a stronger understanding of how their art has been able to evolve due to the efforts of past generation and we will have created a strong community of incredible women activist artists.
If you know of anyone who might fit this category, please send me an email at phoebe.bachman@temple.edu
I love the dinner party idea! Integrating real-world feminists with real-world ideas/art and real-world food (yum!) sounds amazing! I'd love to help out.
ReplyDelete-Darragh
The dinner party "repeat" in this tradition is great, but make it about the bigger picture issues too.
ReplyDeleteThis way you are not only touching on the politics of the female body, but also creating the conditions to activate the body politic as this relates to the notion of the commons.
http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/federici-feminism-and-the-politics-of-commons.pdf
New book not yet released, that may be of interest to your blog readers:
ReplyDeleteNaomi Wolf' s "Vagina: A New Biography"
Wolf makes the case that the vagina is much more than a sex organ – it is integral to female well-being, and a catalyst to female creativity, confidence and identity.
http://www.amazon.com/Vagina-New-Biography-Naomi-Wolf/dp/0061989169/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344521563&sr=8-1&keywords=Vagina%3A+A+New+Biography