Mr. Peanut and the Imaginary Mayor

24Mar09

Dan Savage’s recent post on Slog announcing the possibility of his running for mayor of Seattle couldn’t help but evoke this image in my mind:

Mr. Peanut, artist Vincent Trasov, image by Bob Strazicich, from Megaphone: Vancouver’s Street Paper
I unexpectedly met the Mr. Peanut suit from Vincent Trasov and John Mitchell’s 1974 Vancouver mayoral campaign [...]

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Tags: baudrillard, dan savage, john mitchell, mayor, mr. peanut, performance art, seattle, simulacra, vancouver, vincent trasov, watergate

Gender Performances

07Dec08

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is a monumental exhibition.  Many excellent and thoughtful reviews have articulated the impact, the astute curation, and the excitement.  The aspect of the exhibition I found particularly striking was the simultaneous meaning and accessibility of the thematic organization.  What could have so easily been dominated by jargon and an [...]

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Tags: bella swan, feminism, film, from reverence to rape, gender, modern art, molly haskell, performance, sex and the city, twilight, vancouver, vancouver art gallery, video art, wack! art and the feminist revolution, woman's film, wonder woman