Leftist Hate: DC Art Exhibit Lets People Throw Food at 'Ivanka,' Make Her Vacuum It up
So here’s a great bit of feminist art from the #Resistance: You can now go to a museum, throw food at an Ivanka Trump look-alike, and have her vacuum it up.
“Ivanka Vacuuming” is a creation of Jennifer Rubell that the CulturalDC mobile art gallery is running at the Flashpoint Gallery from Feb. 1-17, according to Fox News.
“The exhibit features a woman, who looks startling like President Trump’s eldest daughter, clad in a pink dress and stilettos while wielding a vacuum next to a giant pile of bread crumbs,” Fox News reported.
Here’s how CulturalDC’s website explains the exhibit:
“Inspired by a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities — daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde — ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ is simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing.”
When they say “our complicity,” they don’t mean CulturalDC or Jennifer Rubell’s complicity, of course.
“Entering the gallery space, viewers will notice a woman bearing a striking resemblance to that Ivanka, cleaning a plush pink carpet. In front of this scene is a white pedestal with a giant pile of crumbs on top. The public is invited to throw crumbs onto the carpet, watching as Ivanka elegantly vacuums up the mess, her smile never wavering. This process repeats itself for the entire duration of the performance,” the description of the performance art installation continues.
“The viewer throwing crumbs, and Ivanka vacuuming them, is not a stand-in for one feeling, one relationship or one point of view toward this powerful and sexualized female form. It is intentionally open to multiple, often contradictory interpretations that are as critical of the interpreter as they are of the subject.”
No. No, it’s not.
Rubell and CulturalDC may rationalize the fact that one can come away with “often contradictory interpretations” of throwing crumbs at this Ivanka archetype, what most people are doing there is throwing crumbs at Ivanka with glee because, hey, she’s a Trump. She has it coming, right?
“Our mission in making space for art often extends to expanding the city’s cultural landscape,” Kristi Maiselman, executive director of CulturalDC, said on the website.
“Jennifer’s insightful work is perfect for the artistically savvy and civic-minded DC crowd. We’re always happy to provide a platform for timely, boundary-pushing installations like ‘Ivanka Vacuuming.'”
So, where’s “Michelle Vacuuming?” “Hillary Vacuuming?” “Kamala Vacuuming?”
You aren’t going to see these for one simple reason: This is nothing more than the ritual abasement of a surrogate Ivanka Trump by onlookers. These aren’t interpreters who are going to criticize themselves for their reflexive hatred of the first daughter. That’s why they’re at the exhibit in the first place. Put any other powerful woman in the same role and you’d cause an outcry that would end Rubell’s career.
Ivanka Trump, by the way, is an adviser to the president and a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also worked in high positions in the Trump Organization.
Meanwhile, here’s how such a woman is portrayed, just in case you didn’t get the message:
Admission is free, although a live-stream feed is also available for the 6-8 p.m. performances. #IvankaVacuuming #LifeInDC https://t.co/t2MS7IE9Ru
— WashTimesLocal (@WashTimesLocal) February 4, 2019
This is feminism in action. By debasing a powerful woman and putting her in a pink outfit and high heels and making her vacuum up other people’s detritus, they’ve made a statement for … well, let’s ask Rubell.
“Here is what’s complicated: we enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It’s funny, it’s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more,” she says.
“We like having the power to elicit a specific and certain response. Also, we know she’ll keep vacuuming whether we do it or not, so it’s not really our fault, right?”
That question is supposed to be rhetorical, which should tell you everything about this vile, dehumanizing display. It’s an object lesson in why everyday Americans have turned on a so-called creative class that’s bereft of creativity or class.
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