This Earth, 2020
Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers

This is a new (mid-covid) collaboration by Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy honoring the work of eco-feminist poet Susan Griffin in a collective reading from the 1978 book, Woman and Nature, The Roaring Inside Her. It was made for Create Art for Earth, a partnership between Judy Chicago, Jane Fonda, Hans Ulrich Obrist and the Serpentine Galleries, Swoon, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Fire Drill Fridays and Greenpeace. 

Performers in order of appearance: Andrea Bowers, Catherine Opie, Kristina Wong, Chelo and Luna Montoya, Mónica Mayer, Hyun Kyung Chung, Susan Griffin, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Juno Stilley and Jess Gooding, Lucía Sanromán, Kelly Curry, Patty Chang, Asia Gonzalez, Barbara T. Smith, Cauleen Smith, Laverne Woods Dunn, Zut Lorz, Lauren Bon, Simone Forti, Ellen Sebastian Chang, Donna Deitch and Terry Jentz, Judy Baca, Mary Weatherford, Beatriz Cortez, Jodie Evans, Ingrid von Sydow, Lauren Halsey, Suzanne Lacy, Nao Bustamante.

If you want to share it, please use the following: #CreateArtForEarth @Judy.Chicago @ThroughtheFlowerArtSpace @hansulrichobrist @bettinakorek.

The artists acknowledge Lindsay Mofford for Editing, Bill Russell for Color Grading, Tasha Skotniki for Sound and Julieta Gil for Graphic Design.

“Thank you dear Suzanne and Andrea for this beautiful performance, bringing  words I wrote so long ago to life.
I feel deeply honored that my writing should be the subject of your exquisite work. Let's hope this reading,
which so simply and skillfully celebrates nature, community and women, all at once,
adds to a chorus of voices growing stronger every day, calling us to protect the earth.” 

- Susan Griffin