Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of visual art. Part performance, part memoir, and part gleefully rambling cultural essay, her “Artist Lectures” are intensely personal, exhaustively researched, and kaleidoscopically wide-ranging, exploring not only how and why she became an artist, but also general meditations on art-making, history, popular culture and our shifting ideals of human beauty.
The first performance in a four part series taking stage at NYU Skirball this season, Farmhouse/Whorehouse begins by exploring the lives of Bocanegra’s grandparents on their small farm in Texas, across the road from the legendary Chicken Ranch, better known as “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” Using text, video, film, costumes and an original song by Shara Nova written just for this performance, she manages to fuse French Impressionism, land rights, Star Trek, survivalism, Rajneesh and Dolly Parton into a single coherent story, about herself, about art, and about the world we live in.
Starring actress Lili Taylor and directed by Lee Sunday Evans.
Date + Time
Date + Time
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Monday Oct 30, 20237:30 PM
About
About
Farmhouse/Whorehouse is the first of four lectures by Suzanne Bocanegra taking place throughout NYU Skirball’s 2023-24 Season. The series will also include When a Priest Marries a Witch (Nov 27), Bodycast (Jan 29), and Honor (Apr 8). Tickets for the spring season events will go on sale at a later date to be determined.
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Support
Support
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and by Howard Gilman Foundation; FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a program of FACE Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Collins Building Services; Korean Cultural Center New York, Marta Heflin Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Stage Pass Fund support.