Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz
Suzanne Lacy, Anyang Women’s Agenda, Public performance and photographs, Anyang City, Korea, 2010. Photo by Raul Vega, curated by Kyong Park
Suzanne Lacy’s work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes. Her recent work includes The Tatooed Skeleton for the Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid, the performance of Prostitution Notes at the Serpentine Marathon, Anyang Women’s Agenda in Anyang, Korea (with photographer Raul Vega), The University of Local Knowledge with the Arnolfini Gallery and the Knowle West Community Centre and an installation in the Medellin Biennale recuperating The Skin of Memory, with Pilar Riano. Her work has been funded through numerous foundations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Surdna, Nathan Cummings, Durfee, and California Community Foundations.
Also known for her writing, Lacy edited the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, published in 1995 by Bay Press and has recently released Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007 by Duke University Press. Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between is a monograph by Sharon Irish, published by University Minnesota Press.
Lacy is the Chair of the Graduate Public Practice Program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
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Leslie Labowitz Starus
In the past two years at 18th Street, leslie has devoted her time to the Performing Archive, a collaboration with Suzanne lacy that began in 2006. It houses the documentation of their public performance work organized under Adriadne: A Social Art Network, which occurred between 1877-82 during a seminal moment in the international feminist movement. Leslie’s work is creating a bridge to younger women artists working today. The Performing Archive is receiving considerable attention and there are numerous plans for it to travel, including its recent presentation at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco. This December it will be in the exhibition Re. Act. Feminism at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin.
