Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor
Lecture Performance
Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor is based on a 16th-century tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Honor,” which depicts 69 historical and allegorical figures who offer personal stories as moral lessons in honor and in dishonor. Bocanegra’s very close reading of the tapestry leads her to weave together such diverse topics as Carole King’s Tapestry album, tableau vivant, the founding of the Girl Scouts of America, Anni Albers, the Monkees, the history of theater and, most significantly, the meaning of honor.
About The Event
Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of the visual arts. Part performance, part memoir, and part gleefully rambling cultural essay, her “Artist Lectures” are intensely personal, exhaustively researched, and kaleidoscopically wide-ranging.
Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor is based on a 16th-century tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Honor,” which depicts 69 historical and allegorical figures who offer personal stories as moral lessons in honor and in dishonor. Bocanegra’s very close reading of the tapestry leads her to weave together such diverse topics as Carole King’s Tapestry album, tableau vivant, the founding of the Girl Scouts of America, Anni Albers, the Monkees, the history of theater and, most significantly, the meaning of honor.
Starring Lili Taylor, directed by Geoff Sobelle, and produced by Jecca Barry. Frances McDormand, executive producer. Kathleen Irvin Loughlin, Executive Co-Producer.
About The Organizer
The Performing Garage is a 110-seat street-level historic black box theater, located at 33 Wooster Street in Soho.
The Performing Garage has been The Wooster Group’s permanent home and performance venue since its beginning and all of their work has been developed there. It was bought in the early 1970s when Soho was still an empty warehouse district being reinhabited by artists. Before the formation of The Wooster Group, The Performance Group, under the direction of Richard Schechner, developed and produced work at the Garage. From 1975-1980 the two groups shared the space. Prior to The Performance Group founding The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street was a metal stamping/flatware factory.
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