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Sat, Feb 2, 2019
7pm

Inspired by the two teenage years Suzanne Bocanegra spent in a body cast due to scoliosis, Bodycast is an inventive theatricalization of the ubiquitous “artist talk” starring actress Lili Taylor. Part performance and part essay, Bocanegra uses the format to explore how and why she became an artist.

February 15, 2019–from 6:00 to 10:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Lightbox Film Center are pleased to host Night with Nuns. Providing a glimpse into the life of devotion, the films in this program were selected as a companion to themes addressed in Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls. 

February 8, 2019–from 7:00 to 8:15 pm

The Philadelphia premiere of Suzanne Bocanegra’s Farmhouse/Whorehouse. Presented by The Fabric Workshop and Museum, the performance will take place at the newly built John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine. 

December 13, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Executive Director Susan L. Talbott will lead a walk-through of the exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls highlighting the collaborative spirit of FWM’s Artist-in-Residence Program. The tour will explore Bocanegra’s newly debuted installations, offering insight into the artist’s methods and practice

November 28, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 PM

Suzanne Bocanegra and noted art critic and historian Hal Foster will discuss the themes and processes that carry through Bocanegra’s work, focusing on her new exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Poorly Watched Girls.

Visual, installation, and performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra turns the concept of the "panel discussion" upside down in this disorienting and subversive theatrical work. In this world premiere she delves into the colossal Honor, The Met's largest tapestry, woven in the 16th century. 2019. Information HERE.

An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Saturday, April 14 at 8PM. Buy tickets HERE.

Starring Paul Lazar, Frances McDormand, and Lili Taylor at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, May 5, 2018. Buy tickets HERE

Co-presented with Ensemble Signal and EMPAC, this performance will feature live-manipulated projections created by Suzanne Bocanegra. April 27, 2018. Buy tickets HERE

Part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival at BAM, December 12-16. Buy tickets HERE.

At the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH September 30 and October 1, 2017. LINK

At the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival, Houston, TX. April 21 & 22, 2017. Buy tickets HERE.

Co-presented with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Walker Art Center on December 3rd as part of the Liquid Music series. Buy tickets HERE.

Performed at the Chicago Arts Club on October 22. Get information HERE. 

At Abrons Arts Center September 23 and 24th. 466 Grand Street in the Lower East Side. We'll be on the main stage. Literally, all of us, audience included.  Get tickets HERE.

I made the set for the choreographer Pam Tanowitz's Sequenzas in Quadrilles at the Joyce Theater, September 27, 28 and October 1, 2. The set will be held by the audience in their hands. LINK

A collaboration between Susan Marshall, Jason Trueting and Suzanne Bocanegra, inspired by the Josef Alber's Interaction of Color premieres as part of American Dance Institute's festival at the Kitchen on June 23, 24, & 25, 2016. More information HERE.
 

12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, Sibyl Kempsons's three year project at the Whitney Museum marking every equinox and solstice for the next 3 years, with costume design by Suzanne Bocanegra. Buy tickets for the Autumn Equinox on September 22, 2016 HERE.

A presentation of excerpts of Chromatic, a piece inspired by Josef Albers' 1963 masterpiece of color theory,  "Interaction of Color," will be performed and created by Suzanne Bocanegra, choreographer Susan Marshall and composer Jason Treuting at Gibney Dance, Agnes Varis Performance Lab, New York, NY on January 10, 2015. LINK