Interesting links of the week (or day)

• Feminist Tea Party in NY and Traveling!

Feminist Tea Party

Here is some info from their about page:
A Feminist Tea Party is an installation, a performance, a participatory event and a multi-faceted collaboration. At each event, we invite a new group of guests and, with them, a new conversation. We hope to engage with each of our guests, asking them to experience the space we have created, to perform within it by playing our game, to learn from each other in an open, supportive space for dialogue and, finally, to witness our collaboration and join us to make it their own.

I dare say, we have very similar ideas. This project was told to me by a woman at the Feminist Zine Fest in Philly!

• Social practice lab in Philadelphia!  (Finally!)

Social Practice Lab

Here is a little snippet from an interview between Gayle Isa and Art Place: "The ArtPlace grant will help us to renovate the third floor of our building to create more artist studio space, as well as support the inaugural year of our Social Practice Lab to host a team of artists-in-residence to explore and enliven community connections in the Chinatown North neighborhood. We anticipate that artists-in-residence will work in partnership with a diversity of residents and neighborhood organizations to create projects similar in many ways to our previous Chinatown In/flux installations – at public sites including storefront windows, restaurant tables, an outdoor plaza, a viaduct tunnel, a parking lot—and contribute to shaping the vision of the neighborhood’s future."


It is great to have such an incredible program in Chinatown (one of the most vibrant parts of the city.) Asian Arts Initiative, the organization that heads the program, has done some amazing stuff across Philadelphia and is one of the more forward thinking art programs in the city.

• Heresies Journal

Heresies Journal Archive

While I am sure I have mentioned this before, Heresies was a feminist art journal that was in publication from 1977 to 1993. One of the amazing things about this link is that it gives the public access to all the back issues of the journal in PDF form.

Fun fact: Lucy Lippard (author of the Pink Glass Swan, co-founder of Printed Matter, and scholar of Women's Art) was actually a journalist for Heresies! Here is a link to her page on the site which says a bit more about her. The other exciting thing is that she also going to be a keynote speaker at this years NY Book Fair at PS1 Moma. (Paul Chan is the other speaker!)
The book fair is from the 28th to the 30th of September-- I hope to see most of you there!