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Hitting the big city for Dylan & Feminist Art!
I went to town on the weekend – to hear Bob Dylan at GM Place, and next day to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
It was a surreal experience to be sitting in a hockey arena with 1000′s of other people watching tiny stick figures make music down there on the stage…can’t remember when I did that last!
The energy was huge, the air thick with smoke (didn’t know you could do that), and the noise level about what I 
expected. (I wore ear plugs, good for 30 decibels. They helped; I justify the uncoolness of it with a tinnitus excuse). Although Dylan did almost all new stuff, the sound was very much his own brand, identifiable anywhere. He encored with Like a Rolling Stone. It was recognizable, but so re-arranged, not even close to the original in quality. Oh well!
The art show was called Wack: Art & the Feminist Revolution. and was about second wave feminism. There were about 125 contributors from all over the western world. It opened at The Museum of Contemporary Art in LA.
The art gallery was magnificent as usual, and the women’s art provacative. Such an incredible variety of 
viewpoints and mediums, hard to take it all in. My fav was the life size mannequin whose dress was made entirely from gloves! Her Miss America-style sash said Madame Bourgeouisie – 1955 on it. There was a video of a woman being raped and murdered while others watched. My daughter told me not to go into that room, so I didn’t.
I was bothered by the story board on a display of collages. It was an explanation of how female artists often cut and pasted and juxtaposed women’s body parts together, and mixed parts of bodies with depictions of women performing their social roles. This kind of art was attempting to demonstrate how we ourselves are fragmented by our gender roles so the true self is not allowed to emerge. It made me wonder, how much has changed today?
You can read other news about this art show by clicking on: Vancouver Sun article
and That Lady is Naked @ the VAG
I’m wiped after all that city energy, so I’m winding down now. Tomorrow I gear up again for the final leg of The Caregiver in MidLife, projected launch date to be November 30th!
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