This performance by conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra masquerades as an artist talk but reveals her aesthetic engagement with one of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s greatest tapestries, the colossal Honor (from the series The Honors), measuring almost 19 by 25 feet. Weaving Bocanegra’s personal narrative with an artist’s interpretation of the 16th century tapestry which reveals a multitude of different characters and narratives, Honor features celebrated film and theater actor Lili Taylor in the title role of The Artist.
Credits:
Written and Created by: Suzanne Bocanegra
Performed by: Lili Taylor
Directed by: Geoff Sobelle
LA Tour Director: Rachel Park
Wardrobe Supervisor: Theodora Bocanegra Lang
Design and Technical Director: Joey Wolfslau
Producer: Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts
Ríu, Ríu, Chíu arranged by David Lang
Suzanne Bocanegra (Writer/Creator) is a visual artist living and working in New York. Bocanegra's Artist Lecture performances have been presented in museums, galleries, and theaters across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and on the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Bocanegra is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 she received the Robert Rauschenberg Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2019, a major show of Bocanegra's work titled Poorly Watched Girls was presented at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Also in 2019, her solo show Wardrobe Test was the inaugural exhibition at ART CAKE, an exhibition space in Brooklyn. Her work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Lili Taylor (Performer). Honor marks the fourth Artist Lecture Lili has worked on with Suzanne Bocanegra. Lili and Suzanne have been performing When a Priest Marries a Witch, BodyCast and Farmhouse / Whorehouse over the years in many different venues across the US ranging from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Wexner Center, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to name a few.
Honor will be performed at the NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY, on April 8, 2024.
Honor will be performed at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, on February 22–24, 2024.
Honor was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, on February 10, 2023.
Honor was performed at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX, on January 27, 2023.
Honor was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, from April 29–30, 2022.
Honor premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, on February 19, 2022.