On Saturday, Eleri attended her first Creative Time event: Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez's Another Protest Song (Karaoke with a Message) and the Center for Tactical Magic's Tactical Ice Cream Unit in Prospect Park.
We enjoyed some ice cream with a side of propaganda (first round: ice cream sandwich and "Food not Bombs"; round two: choco-vanilla bar and "Anarchy")
Watched Creative Time's curator Nato Thompson sing a LOT of "modern protest songs" (the project invited participants to name current songs they considered to be protest songs on a website, which the artists then compiled into a karoake play list)
Then got in on the action ourselves, joining Creative Time's director, Anne Pasternak, as backup dancer's to Nato's rendition of the Devo Classic Whip It. That's me, whipping it.
Eleri slept through it all. Yes, even the part where her mom publicly danced like an idiot. But she did get a lot of compliments about what a good baby she is. All true, all true.
Anyone who wants to check out these projects and many others by artists exploring what Democracy means today can come to the Park Avenue Armory from 9/21 - 9/27 for our exhibition Democracy in America: The National Art Campaign.
As Nato puts it, Democracy is a verb.
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