{"id":19613,"date":"2013-06-14T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=19613"},"modified":"2013-06-17T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:06:27","slug":"a-feminist-tea-party-straddling-the-49th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=19613","title":{"rendered":"A Feminist Tea Party: straddling the 49th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Friday, June 14 – Sunday, June 16, 2013, 6 – 9 p.m.<\/strong>
\nO’Born Contemporary<\/strong>
\n131 Ossington Avenue, Toronto.<\/p>\n

Do come in for a cup of tea…<\/p>\n

O’Born Contemporary is pleased to present A Feminist Tea Party: Straddling the 49th, a three-day collaborative artwork by Caitlin Rueter<\/strong> and Suzanne Stroebe<\/strong>. OBC will be the fifteenth venue in the ongoing series and the host of A Feminist Tea Party’s first instance outside the United States.<\/p>\n

A Feminist Tea Party lies somewhere between a performance, an installation and a participatory event. Initially provoked by the Tea Party protests subsequent to the 2008 presidential election, A Feminist Tea Party recasts the “tea party” as a playful, progressive, inquisitive and inclusive space. Conceptually, it engages with the history of the tea party (from Boston to Beck) and feminism (from the suffragist movement to Lady Gaga). A Feminist Tea Party’s aesthetics are meant tomirror techniques of the Tea Party movement, which has effectively played on the concept of historical reenactment as a vehicle for political discourse.<\/p>\n

Rueter and Stroebe revisit the consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s in the set of a mid-century tea party. Constructing a room in the center of the gallery, they create both a home and a forum. Dressed in 1950s costume and greeting guests in their “parlour”, they draw on the iconographic heritage of contemporary representations of women-sex and service, the consumer and the consumed. The gallery is recast as a home, an open forumwhere essential and discomfiting issues can be discussed freely and with a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Through the duration of their residency at OBC, Rueter and Stroebe invite viewers to join them for tea, sweets and conversation. Each day, a different co-host drawn from Toronto’s vibrant and uniquely varied cultural landscape will introduce a topic to engage guests in an informal discussion about feminism.<\/p>\n

All are welcome to participate, regardless of gender, political persuasion, or identity as feminist.<\/p>\n

Co-hosts, themes and schedules have been announced on the OBC website: http:\/\/www.oborncontemporary.com<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, June 14 – Sunday, June 16, 6 – 9 pm
\nO’Born Contemporary<\/strong><\/p>\n

a three-day collaborative artwork by Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe. All are welcome to participate, regardless of gender, political persuasion, or identity as feminist<\/p>\n

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