Performance Lessons: Suzanne Lacy Teaches Andrea Bowers Performance Art Beta Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
The Main Museum of Los Angeles Art in downtown Los Angeles opened with a first commissioned project by Lacy and Bowers centered on the profoundly influential trajectory of performance art in California between 1968-1980. It was a sequel to the artists’ nine-day durational installation at The Drawing Center in New York in 2014, where Andrea Bowers taught Suzanne Lacy how to draw. Using the practice Lacy was foundational in forming, roles were reversed this time and Lacy taught Bowers how to do performance art as they lived in the old building for ten days between Halloween and the 2016 election. Various artists joined them for informal conversations and public events. At the conclusion the artists created a manifesto they left in the space, documenting their time together.