Running to San Francisco, 1975
Lacy made her weekly trip from her home in Los Angeles to the San Francisco Art Institute, where she taught a class, in a track uniform for this performance. She timed herself and posed for the camera like an athlete for a news profile. One photograph would appear alongside a diaristic entry in Prostitution Notes (1974–75, pp. 90–93), where Lacy describes “the act of performing in total awareness of each moment. I ran, I was always running in the piece, and what I didn’t say was I was experiencing the usual fear that propels me through action.”
(Excerpt from Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here)