Sept 3–6 at 7:00 PM, Sept 7 at 2 pm, Sept 9-13 at 7 pm, Sept 14 at 2 pm
“Peak lecture-performance in the age of the internet: hundreds of images and deftly intertwined stories that romp through time, inserting the personal into a broader cultural history with precision and wit.” – Claire Bishop, ARTFORUM
Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of the visual arts. Part performance, part memoir, and part gleefully rambling cultural essay, her “Artist Lectures” are intensely personal, exhaustively researched, and kaleidoscopically wide-ranging.
Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor is based on a 16th-century tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Honor,” which depicts 69 historical and allegorical figures who offer personal stories as moral lessons in honor and in dishonor. Bocanegra’s very close reading of the tapestry leads her to weave together such diverse topics as Carole King’s Tapestry album, tableau vivant, the founding of the Girl Scouts of America, Anni Albers, the Monkees, the history of theater and, most significantly, the meaning of honor.
Starring Lili Taylor, directed by Geoff Sobelle, and produced by Jecca Barry. Frances McDormand, executive producer. Kathleen Irvin Loughlin, Executive Co-Producer.