Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue introduced the queer theory, the fact of feminism art gallery and the recent work that they made. This theory is a novel and sensitive topic in contemporary society. Because queer refers to gay and lesbian, however, this group of people cannot be accepted in normative sexual orientation. Mitchell and Logue are not only collaborators, but also lovers. Thus, they founded Toronto’s Feminist Art Gallery. They use this way to introduce queer and feminism to other people. Queer refers to gay, lesbian, bisexuality, asexual. Queer as a reference to a social group, including all those who do not conform to the gender norms or norms of the patriarchal society, and queer theory is based on feminism. As Allyson Mitchell said, queer has become to commonly used to signal multiple inferences. She discussed four different connotations of “Queer.” Deirdre Logue talked about the experience of queer art works and the foreground of feminist cultural production. Both of these two speakers committed to study and spread queer, gender, sexuality and feminist art.
“Kill Joy’s Kastle” this is one of Allyson Mitchell’s project. It is a haunted house. She thinks her queer culture go pretty problematic, like two gays getting married will go to hell. In this house, there are acting out little sins for which you commit you are going to hell. The style of the hunted house is full of feminism and lesbian. This project is humor and absurd, but it expresses the real anxiety of feminism. In class, they showed a video about “Kill Joy’s Kastle,” there are a lot of images about the inside of the hunted house. Mitchell thinks how an ideology expressed through a group of people, with theater, sounds, and performance in the documentary. Alison Cooley critics this project “Kill Joy’s Kastle‘s atmosphere of experimentation, silliness, and provocation was infectious.” When audiences enter a section which between a queer-feminist library, a high-school and a dance party, they will feel a sort of awkwardness and belonging in puberty. Because zombies are dancing wildly, so visitors will not know whether should participate with them. This project is not a simple hunted house, it is an imaginative queer and feminist world, and it shows queer and feminist are alienated by the society.
Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue did another big project about sexual violence in Toronto University. The purpose of this large size drawing is ending sexual violence on University campus. Female as one of the vulnerable group people, when they meet rape or sexual violence, they will keep silence. Therefore, they created this wall painting collaboratively. Besides, Mitchell and Logue founded FAG in 2010; they have described FAG as “political pot-luck, free-schooling, backyard screening, ax-grinding, directed reading, protest sign making, craft den, incantation, herbal tea and gluten-free muffin top artist talk sensation.” 2 They collaborate to create projects about feminism and queer, to protect queer people in contemporary society. Joanne Latimer appraises “FAG is an anti-gallery. This gallery does not get the fee from art projects; they only can get the donation from other people. They will hold a dinner party after every show, and guests will wear name tags with the name of another feminist or queer artists, to remember them.”3 FAG is an organization to support for female and queer.
Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue are not only queer but also feminism artist. They held some exhibitions and did a lot of projects to show queer exists in the society. They organized some parades to spread feminist power and tried to eliminate bias from queer people. Queer account for the small size of people, thus, they try to become a normative group. In the modern city, some of people event not realized what sexual orientation are they in.
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