Suzanne Bocanegra Develops New Work At UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance
The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Artist Residency Program provides local and national artists creative time and necessary space for the development of new work. Suzanne Bocanegra is an artist living and working in New York. CAP UCLA presented Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor as part of its 2017-18 season. Bocanegra’s most recent work, Studio Visit, is an artist’s studio visit as a theater performance staged in her own studio in Brooklyn, NY. During her CAP UCLA residency, Bocanegra will be working on a new project for the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra, in reference to the largest tapestry in the Museum’s collection, entitled Honor, which depicts 67 historical and allegorical figures offering moral instruction on honorable conduct around a powerful 16th century monarch.
"UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance's Artist Residency Program provides local and national artists creative time and necessary space for the development of new work. Each year CAP UCLA welcomes a new cohort and offers resources, time, connections and more to their process of bringing an idea to the stage. Suzanne Bocanegra, one of this season's Artists In Residence, will workshop and develop her piece, Honor: An Artist Lecture the week of November 18. The week will conclude with an invited work-in-progress showing on Friday, November 22. The completed work will appear in an upcoming CAP UCLA season.
A contemporary visual and performance artist, Suzanne Bocanegra is known for her paintings, costume designs, installations and performances. More recently, Bocanegra has ventured into the world of theater with her "Artist Lectures," which are staged narratives performed by professional actors. Part personal memoir, part cultural history and part art history lecture-this performance takes as its subject the largest tapestry in the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled "Honor."
Eiko Otake, a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist also a 19-20 Resident Artist, visited CAP UCLA in October as part of her ongoing work, Duet Project: Distance is Malleable which will also appear in an upcoming season. Throughout her residency, CAP UCLA will present informal works-in-progress of the project. A snapshot of her residency is now available online.
CAP UCLA's 2019-20 Artists In Residence program also includes Nadia Sirota, Toshi Reagon, Lynette Wallworth and Constance Hockaday. CAP UCLA would like to acknowledge the generous support of Susan & Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for investing in creative development initiatives at the Center."— BWW News Desk, Nov. 18, 2019
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