{"id":3736,"date":"2017-01-28T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2017-05-29T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:15:45","slug":"art-out-and-about-toronto-eagle-testickle-and-canadas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-eagle-testickle-and-canadas-birthday","title":{"rendered":"Art Out and About Toronto &#8211; Eagle Testickle and Canada&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know (and if we didn\u2019t, we do now) that 2017 marks Canada\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> year. And she doesn\u2019t look a day over 135, folks! And while the city will offer you <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.toronto.ca\/wps\/portal\/contentonly?vgnextoid=21497eee9e048510VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">countless ways to commemorate this year <\/a><\/b>with love; this event offers a slightly different narrative.<\/p>\n<p>From January 26<sup>th<\/sup> to March 4<sup>th<\/sup> the University of Toronto\u2019s Art Museum will host <a href=\"http:\/\/artmuseum.utoronto.ca\/exhibition\/shame-prejudice-story-resilience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.<\/strong><\/a> This exhibition is guest curated by the artist himself, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentmonkman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Monkman<\/a><\/b>, a visual and performance Canadian artist of Swampy Cree and mixed Irish-English ancestry. Included in Shame and Prejudice are his paintings, drawings, and sculptures as they interact with historical artifacts borrowed for this exhibition and afford us a unique glimpse into First Nations lives present and past.<\/p>\n<p>Painted with an honest, talented, playful, somber, and thought-provoking brush. Monkman&#8217;s exhibition starts in the present and takes us back 150 years before confederation; showing us the squalid living conditions on reserves, residential schools, New France, the Fur Trade and more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3745\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfoac.com\/artists\/KM_inventaire_EN.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3745\" class=\"wp-image-3745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/KM_Untitled_Urban_Landscape_2013_large.jpg\" alt=\"Struggle for Balance painting by Eagle Testickle \" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/KM_Untitled_Urban_Landscape_2013_large.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/KM_Untitled_Urban_Landscape_2013_large-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/KM_Untitled_Urban_Landscape_2013_large-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Struggle for Balance. 2013. Acrylic on Canvas.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his art and his performances alike, you will notice Monkman&#8217;s hard-to-ignore flamboyant drag alter-ego: Chief Eagle Testickle, modeled after colonial myth, Hollywood cliche, and Cher&#8217;s costumes from her 1973 hit Half-Breed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cher - Half Breed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z6E98ZRaU1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His interplay between the offensively-cheesy, historical, aboriginal identity, and fiction, suggests that history is often&#8230;creative, to say the least, especially as it pertains to First Nations identity.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious to read more about this fascinating character (I mean both Kent and Chief Testickle), may I recommend this <b><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianart.ca\/features\/kent-monkman-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Art<\/a><\/b> piece written on him\/them, it is excellent!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3746\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternavox.net\/22390\/imaginenative-film-media-arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3746\" class=\"wp-image-3746 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kent-Monkman-Miss-Chief-and-Bison-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kent-Monkman-Miss-Chief-and-Bison-768x1024\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kent-Monkman-Miss-Chief-and-Bison-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kent-Monkman-Miss-Chief-and-Bison-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Miss Chief and Bison.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>And if I&#8217;ve piqued your curiosity about Kent and Miss Chief as well as about this exhibition, check it out while its still here. But especially on the 4th of February between 2pm-3:30pm, you&#8217;ll get a curatorial tour of the exhibition with Kent (meet at the University of Toronto Art Center, 15 King\u2019s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7).<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be here for long though, and when it does leave us in March, it will <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/visualarts\/2016\/12\/28\/truth-resilience-and-indigenous-art-find-their-place-in-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travel to every Canadian province and territory<\/a><\/b> to remind us that shame and resilience are prominent features of the 21st century in Canada and know no boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some other <b>Art Out and About<\/b> articles here:<br \/>\n<b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-roam-the-rom\">Art Out and About Toronto \u2013 Roam the ROM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-bleeders-in-the-watah\">Art Out and About Toronto \u2013 Bleeders in the Watah<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-the-earl-of-pan\">Art Out and About Toronto &#8211; The Earl of Pan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-city-of-art\">Art Out and About Toronto &#8211; City of Art II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-batsheva-dance-company\">Art Out and About Toronto &#8211; BatSheva Dance Company<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know (and if we didn\u2019t, we do now) that 2017 marks Canada\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[220],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art Out and About Toronto - Eagle Testickle and Canada&#039;s birthday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-eagle-testickle-and-canadas-birthday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"TorontoRentals.com Blog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-eagle-testickle-and-canadas-birthday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/art-out-and-about-toronto-eagle-testickle-and-canadas-birthday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"TorontoRentals.com Blog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/53503b1c0fd1a6bc186b273abbee8d44\"},\"headline\":\"Art Out and About Toronto &#8211; 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