Suzanne Lacy (Los Angeles, 1973)

Performed twice, once at Womanspace Gallery and once at the opening of the Los Angeles Women’s Building, this performance was typical of performance at that time, a series of images strung together in narrative fashion, that included projections, light, visual actions, and text.

Lacy began by reconstructing a lamb carcass, nailing its innards onto a saw horse and adding a head and tail, as nearby a man, dressed as a woman, made links of sausage from ground up meat, hanging the sausage from a meat hook on the wall. A long white runner became a table set for the audience. Overhead beef kidneys swung on long strings from the ceiling. On the kidneys, white and black mouse ran up and down the string. Two young girls dressed in white brought pieces of birthday cake for the audience.