#the dinner party
Photo from Roger Wilkerson.
Starting this week, 11 Questions asks all of Tumblr one question, and posts the 11 best answers.
This week’s question is:
You can invite any three (3) people, living or dead, to a party. Magically, they’ll all be able to understand each other, whatever languages they speak. Whom do you invite, and what’s the party like?
Bonus questions:
- What would you serve?
- Where do you hold the party?
- Is it a dinner party, or would you invite them to a kegger, a dance party, a cuddle party, etc.?
- Is it a themed party? e.g. Hawaiian, Halloween, Hufflepuff
- How long does the party last?
Example answers:
- “I’ve always wanted to know what J.S. Bach was like, so I’d invite him and two of his sons.”
- “I’d like to know what Muhammad Ali, Bertrand Russell and Saint Thomas Aquinas would talk about over lamb chops.”
- “I’d invite Elvis, Errol Flynn and Socrates to a luau. What do you mean, ‘Why?’”
Photo from Roger Wilkerson.
There are four ways to enter:
- Submit your answer through 11 Questions’ ask boxorsubmission form.
- Tag the post you want to submit (on Tumblr) with 1q11a.
- Tag your answer on Twitter with hashtag #1q11a. You can also send it to me @elevenquestions.
- JoinourFacebook Fan Page and submit your answer, or a link to your answer, there.
Entries can be in a digital form, such as:
- A basic list of who you’d invite.
- A short story or essay describing the dinner party.
- An illustration, painting, or photo of the dinner party in action.
- A rhymed and/or metered poem, e.g. a sestina, a tanka, a sonnet, etc. No free verse!
- A video or animation.
- A photo set, animated or otherwise.
- Some combination of the above.
Deadline is Friday, August 10th, at midnight Pacific Time (UTC-8). Good luck!
Judy Chicago,The Dinner Party (detail),1979, place setting for Sappho ♀️️
Judy Chicago,The Dinner Party, 1974 – 1979
- emphasis on the female anatomy
- monumental dinner table; each side of the triangle is 48 feet, with 13 place settings for a total of 39 important women in history
- collaboration between artists from CalArts in media that had traditionally not been recognized as fine arts, such as fiber, ceramics, and metalworking
- each place setting tailored to the style of art in which each of these women lived, and each plate is an abstraction of a vagina
- example of second wave feminist art
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