Anatomy Lessons #3
Anatomy Lessons #3: Falling Apart, 1976
Lacy created four collages of photographs of herself falling through the air and ripped apart to reveal organs. Susan Mogul, a fellow feminist artist who collaborated with Lacy on a few performances and photographed others, shot her jumping from a ladder in the early morning light. The resulting set of photocollages with excerpts from the artist’s book Falling Apart (1976) were reproduced in Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly in 1980.
(Excerpt from Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here)
As was typical of temporal work from that era, explorations were both in real time (performances in their own right that were photographed) and revisited as photography or video. Along with other California performance artists from the seventies, Lacy’s view of work prioritized processes and multiple media rather than developing discrete art objects.
Anatomy Lessons: After Baldessari, 1976
Ironic feminist/embodied reference to John Baldessari’s Throwing Three Balls in the Air to get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts),1973, who taught at Cal Arts while Lacy was there.
Anatomy Lessons: Untitled, 1976
