Title - Suzanne Lacy
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Subsequently, fifteen students enrolled in an internship project to create an exhibition at Capp Street Projects. Then-Governor Pete Wilson’s State of the State address, excoriating teen pregnancy, played as an audio track outside a gigantic twelve-foot high crib designed by architect Lisa Findley. Audience squeezed in a tiny space between the crib and the wall to view tiny drawings recounting a narrative from first meetings with the fathers of their babies to giving birth. At the back of the crib, stairs allowed audience entry inside the crib, where a disordered and chaotic classroom was piled with desks. At the front of the crib-room a large television monitor featured Governor Pete Wilson delivering his address out of synch with his voice, distantly audible outside the crib. Inside, sound belonged to Asha Zitani’s rebuttal, played on a small television, chastising Wilson’s punitive rhetoric. Inside the desks clay sculptures by the young women and sound collages by Unique Holland complemented the collective narrative.