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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Sex / Visual Art / The Ladies The Art After Dinner Party: Mass Public Clitoral Action

Posted by on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:30 PM

The clit of Lynn Schirmer.
  • Courtesy Lynn Schirmer
  • The clit of Lynn Schirmer.

Seattle artist Lynn Schirmer today announced a new project called After Dinner Party. The title is a reference to Judy Chicago's early feminist masterwork The Dinner Party, which is on long-term display at the heart of the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party is a vagina thing. After Dinner Party is clitoral, a body part that's inherently more politicized, more feared, more misunderstood, more ignored, more attacked, more everythinged. It's time to clitoralize.

At this point, After Dinner Party is just a web site—but one with drawings of the clitoris that already make you remember its shape when you close your eyes. (I did not already have a 3D projection of the clitoris in my brain; maybe you did.)

The project has two upcoming (ahem, upcoming) phases, set to begin during Pioneer Square's First Thursday Art Walk in May:

At present, After Dinner Party consists of two kinds of activities: a curated art exhibit and celebration; and a loosely coordinated series of individual and/or mass public actions. The form and scope of the second portion is entirely dependent upon the energy and creativity of participants. The goal is to represent the shape of the clitoris, in as many art forms and in as many venues or public spaces as possible, all over the city.

You've really gotta check this out.

 

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Hermes, in Classical Attic Greece, was very frequently depicted with a noticeable erection. Seeing as he was the god of travelers and the breaker-of-boundaries, the first road markers were actually made in the form of robust erections. I do not mean to imply that because of the depictions, so were road markers indicated thus. There seemed to be an innate connection between traveling and virility; much more, I cannot say with any certainty.

It is much harder to depict female genitalia with any certainty. Not sure where I was going with this.
Posted by Central Scrutinizer on February 8, 2012 at 2:58 PM
The Accidental Theologist 2
@1, check out the link Jen gave, go to The Organ page, and watch the Betty Dodson video for help with road signs.
Posted by The Accidental Theologist http://accidentaltheologist.com on February 8, 2012 at 3:07 PM
rob! 3
Penguin!
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on February 8, 2012 at 3:54 PM
this guy I know in Spokane 4
^ That's what I was going to say. Do clitorises really look like penguins? If so, then it's no surprise I don't find them sexy.
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on February 8, 2012 at 4:24 PM
Fnarf 5
If you bobble that beak back and forth you can make the penguin sing and dance! Not sure where I was going with this.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on February 8, 2012 at 6:04 PM
6
There's a reason underwear was invented. Please keep penes and vags undercover. thank you and have a nice day.
Posted by dj007 on February 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM
jezbian 7
@6: uh..."vags" can't really be seen, even without underwear, unless the female involved is really ...erm..."presenting"?
Posted by jezbian on February 8, 2012 at 7:02 PM
alpha unicorn 8
“I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.”~ Christie Brinkley
Posted by alpha unicorn on February 8, 2012 at 8:43 PM
venomlash 9
It's hard enough to find already without putting decoys everywhere too!
Posted by venomlash on February 9, 2012 at 12:56 AM
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@6,7 I suppose that's why they call it "bumpin' uglies"......uh, that pick totally looks like jar-jar binx with giant saggy boobies.
Posted by Jasmond g. jahoosafartz on February 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM

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