Suzanne Lacy in-conversation with Sophia Yadong Hao
When
Thu, 27 March 2025
6.30–8pm
Where
Online
Further info
Cost: Free
Cooper Gallery websiteType: Talk
Suzanne Lacy, Between the Door and the Street, 2013 (Production still) Courtesy Suzanne Lacy
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….
Accompanies the exhibition Between the Door and the Street by Suzanne Lacy at Cooper Gallery.
Until 12 April 2025
Mon–Sat, 12–5pm
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
Posted by: Cooper Gallery