Suzanne Lacy The Roof Is On Fire

The roof is on fire 1994 8 years ago suzanne lacy chris johnson and annice jacoby produced team s first large scale performance art event which featured 220 public high school students in unscripted and unedited conversations on family sexuality drugs music neighborhoods and the future as they sat in 100 cars parked on a rooftop garage.

Suzanne lacy the roof is on fire.

Nathan bennett measured in walking distance the space between yerba buena center for the arts and the san francisco museum of modern art is physically small about two minutes if you hit the lights right. This is the roof is on fire by suzanne lacy on vimeo the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Performance june 4 1994 city center west garage oakland. Suzanne lacy chris johnson and annice jacoby produced team s first large scale performance art event which featured 220 public high school students in unscripted the roof is on fire 1994 on vimeo.

The roof is on fire was one of several of what lacy called politi. The roof is on fire posted on july 22 2014 by catrìona suzanne lacy s career as an artist educator and activist spans multiple decades and major movements in contemporary art history feminist art new genre public art a phrase coined by the artist and more recently social practice. Courtesy of the artist and yerba buena center for the arts san francisco. Suzanne lacy annice jacoby chris johnson the roof is on fire 1993 94 performance city center west garage photo.

Suzanne lacy annice jacoby and chris johnson the roof is on fire 1993 94 from the oakland projects 1991 2001.