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.

The roof is on fire was one of several of what lacy called politi. This is the roof is on fire by suzanne lacy on vimeo the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Suzanne lacy annice jacoby and chris johnson the roof is on fire 1993 94 from the oakland projects 1991 2001. This site specific live event the roof is on fire was the most immediately relevant section of the museum s retrospective on california based activist documen tarian performance artist and educator suzanne lacy a joint venture with sfmoma.

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. The roof is on fire performance with 220 teenagers talking in parked cars oakland ca 1994 suzanne lacy. The roof is on fire suzanne lacy annice jacoby and chris johnson s project with young people speaking in a garage in 1994 is part the oakland projects covered in we are here at yerba buena.

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.