Underwear Audit, Stitch & Bitch, Cunt Quilt
Channel: coralfisch
Date: 2017-07-27

Underwear Audit, Stitch & Bitch, Cunt Quilt with Spanish Subtitles
https://www.facebook.com/groups/underwearaudit/ 

Performing Citizenship in three acts, this project begs the public: How do we get a woman in the whitehouse? Equal parts participatory democracy, solidarity building and political action; the Underwear Audit accounts for our bodies, the Stitch n Bitch is an association formed, and the Cunt Quilt holds our governing bodies accountable. 

From American history's skidmarks, we'll uncover the porous lessons of matriarchs like Betsy Ross, who supposedly sewed the first American flag; but whose conflicting values on the color line- revealed holes in patriotism's story. Slogans like "Don't Tread on Me" and the moralistic paintings of early American portraiture to Modernism's AbEx paintings of freedom are the theatre sets of war for the American Dream. Nation-building relies on the discharge of truth in favor of a more dramatic, graphic, and seductive idealized public memory. Visual slogans are fetish objects, bandied about by media as a way to navigate identity, nationhood, and citizenship. Stitching and bitching my way through explorations of citizenship, we'll be reshaping symbols of feminine consumption and navigational tools of representation as part of the Refuge/Refuse series from The City of Today for Feminine Urbanism.

Until there is a woman in the whitehouse, I'll be conducting a National Underwear Audit to start a series of Cunt Quilts: the inaugural cunt quilt was born at the Women's March on Washington in January 2017. 

A constellation of shared stories and worn out women's underwear, the quilt will be a shameless anecdotal patchwork of the soft, digital self, and the stern, body product. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled drawers, yearning to breathe free! No matter the condition- they'll be a revelation of the shameful, the sanitized, the washed-up, the worn, the probed, the holy, the scarlet, the loosened, the exonerated, the secret, and the secreted. 

Please spread the word, and ship your distressed drawers to:

Lambastic
PO box 220417
66 Meserole Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222-9997