Event
Suzanne Lacy in-conversation with Sophia Yadong Hao
Online
Thursday 27 March 2025
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
Unpacking and illuminating Between the Door and the Street, Suzanne Lacy in conversation with Sophia Yadong Hao will take a behind the scenes look at the critical approaches, intentions and processes underscoring Lacy’s highly acclaimed project. With cogent reflections on the role of feminist practice the event will provide vital insights on the social necessity of community organizing and political activism today.
Booking
Free tickets available via Eventbrite
All welcome
Participant information
This is a large capacity online session held on Zoom.
After registering a free place via Eventbrite, participants will receive a Zoom meeting link.
The event will be live-captioned on Zoom
Speakers' Biographies
Suzanne Lacy is renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labour and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S.
In 2019 she had a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Yerba Buena Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in major periodicals and books and she exhibits in museums across the world. Also known for her writing, Lacy edited Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and authored Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007. She is a professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California and a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Centre.
Sophia Yadong Hao is a curator, writer and editor. Working internationally, Hao characterises the curatorial as a rhizomatic praxis capable of transforming exhibition making into a testing ground for radical futures.
Hao is currently Director & Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery, Reader in Curatorial Practice at the University of Dundee, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. Hao’s practice situates exhibition making as a critical inquiry, Feminist ethos as curatorial method, and alternative art pedagogies as a radical praxis of decolonised knowledge production.
Hao’s publications include Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?, Hubs and Fictions, A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE, and NOTES on a return. She is founding editor of the digital publication What I am Reading Now….
About the exhibition
Between the Door and the Street is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by the highly esteemed American artist Suzanne Lacy.
Developing out of six months of conversations between Lacy, 400 women and a few men from activist groups in New York City, Between the Door and the Street culminated in a one-day performative public action that took place on 64 stoops in a Brooklyn neighbourhood. Witnessed by over 2500 people who entered the closed-off street, the performance audience became a ‘listening voyeur’ to unscripted conversations among groups of women, identified by yellow pashmina scarves, seated on the steps and porches of individual homes. Choreographed by activist inspired and group generated questions on gender, race, ethnicity and class, the conversations weaved together multiple intergenerational narratives that grappled with the politics of immigration, labour, poverty, all of which have significant impacts on women’s lives.
Visit:
28 February – 12 April
Monday – Saturday, 12–5pm
Read more on our exhibition page.
Access
The event will be live captions on Zoom.
All enquiries please contact: [email protected]
Image
Suzanne Lacy, Between the Door and the Street, 2013 (Production still)
Courtesy Suzanne Lacy
Funding support
The exhibition is supported by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with funding from the DoJ Centenary Trust and Creative Scotland
Cooper Gallery
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