
Suzanne Lacy: The Crystal Quilt, documentation from which was on display at Tate Modern last year

Suzanne Lacy: Storying Rape, included in the Liverpool Biennial 2012

Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz-Starus: In Mourning and In Rage, part of the group show No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar at Blum & Poe Los Angeles
Suzanne Lacy had quite a 2012. In addition to the above exhibitions she was interviewed in Art in America, Frieze, and Art Journal (in which she and Andrea Bowers discoursed on the topic of "Necessary Collaborations in Feminist Art"). She also gave talks about her practice at the Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern, the International Conference on the Arts in Society, and the Creative Time Summit. Lacy has been an inspiration to me ever since I read her collected writings Leaving Art, and I particularly like the questions she challenges herself with as she creates her work (found on a project page on the Creative Time site):
What is the relationship of “service” to “activism,” and of both to “art practice”? Are artists limited by their allegiance to a professional community and its standards and methodologies? How is my work linked to local service practices and global activisms? Who do we work for, toward what ends, and what acts are most effective toward those ends?
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