Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of visual art. Part performance, part memoir and part essay, her Artist Lectures are both intensely personal and exhaustively researched, exploring not only how and why she became an artist, but also general mediations on art-making, history and our shifting ideals of human beauty.
The first lecture in a four part series taking stage at NYU Skirball this season, Farmhouse/Whorehouse considers the lives of Bocanegra’s grandparents on their small farm in Texas. Starring actress Lili Taylor and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, Farmhouse/Whorehouse uses storytelling through multimedia to examine the idyllic place that the rural world occupies in urban imaginations.
