Performances, videotapes, and photo series during the 1970’s exploring flesh and the body.

Lacy’s undergraduate degree in zoology, graduate work in psychology, and an interest in medicine showed up in early work about the body. While her use of lamb carcasses, meat, entrails, and images such as wresting nude with carcasses and exracting vials of her own blood with a hypodermic on stage were compared with the Viennese Action School, a better comparison is with explorations of the dis-ease of consciousness as it inhabits the flesh and the constant presence of mortality, by artists such as Lucas Samaras, Terry Allen, and Terry Fox.

A female translation includes the monstrosity of the flesh and a paradoxical relationship to physical violence, seen through the use of Frankenstein and Dracula literary references. The uniquely feminine translation of this consciousness that sits uneasily in a physical body is found in her references to the monstrousness to this consciousness.