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UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance’s Artist Residency Program provides local and national artists creative time and necessary space for the development of new work. Each year CAP UCLA welcomes a new cohort and offers resources, time, connections and more to their process of bringing an idea to the stage. Suzanne Bocanegra, one of this season’s Artists In Residence, will workshop and develop her piece, Honor: An Artist Lecture the week of November 18. The week will conclude with an invited work-in-progress showing on Friday, November 22. The completed work will appear in an upcoming CAP UCLA season.

November 24, 2019
5PM

Suzanne Bocanegra and Annie-B Parson host a book signing of their respective books:

SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: POORLY WATCHED GIRLS

and

DRAWING THE SURFACE OF DANCE: A BIOGRAPHY IN CHARTS
BY ANNIE-B PARSON

November 10, 2019
2PM

Susan Talbott and Suzanne Bocanegra do a joint walkthrough and tour of Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake.

November 19, 2019
5PM

Poets Mónica de la Torre and Kim Rosenfield read selections from their work in conjunction with Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake.

November 3, 2019
5PM

Pultizer prize-winning composer and musician Caroline Shaw sings David Lang’s ‘when i am alone’ live at Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake. ‘when i am alone’ is used as the soundtrack to Bocanegra’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, on view.

October 11, 2019
7:30 PM

This performance is presented in conjunction with Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test on view at Art Cake through November 17.

September 7 - November 17, 2019

Art Cake is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test, opening September 7, 2019. Located at 214 40th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Art Cake is a new organization dedicated to providing space for production and opportunities to explore creative practices.

Sat, Feb 2, 2019
7pm

Inspired by the two teenage years Suzanne Bocanegra spent in a body cast due to scoliosis, Bodycast is an inventive theatricalization of the ubiquitous “artist talk” starring actress Lili Taylor. Part performance and part essay, Bocanegra uses the format to explore how and why she became an artist.

February 15, 2019–from 6:00 to 10:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Lightbox Film Center are pleased to host Night with Nuns. Providing a glimpse into the life of devotion, the films in this program were selected as a companion to themes addressed in Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls. 

February 8, 2019–from 7:00 to 8:15 pm

The Philadelphia premiere of Suzanne Bocanegra’s Farmhouse/Whorehouse. Presented by The Fabric Workshop and Museum, the performance will take place at the newly built John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine. 

December 13, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Executive Director Susan L. Talbott will lead a walk-through of the exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls highlighting the collaborative spirit of FWM’s Artist-in-Residence Program. The tour will explore Bocanegra’s newly debuted installations, offering insight into the artist’s methods and practice

November 28, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 PM

Suzanne Bocanegra and noted art critic and historian Hal Foster will discuss the themes and processes that carry through Bocanegra’s work, focusing on her new exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Poorly Watched Girls.

Visual, installation, and performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra turns the concept of the "panel discussion" upside down in this disorienting and subversive theatrical work. In this world premiere she delves into the colossal Honor, The Met's largest tapestry, woven in the 16th century. 2019. Information HERE.

An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Saturday, April 14 at 8PM. Buy tickets HERE.

Starring Paul Lazar, Frances McDormand, and Lili Taylor at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, May 5, 2018. Buy tickets HERE

Co-presented with Ensemble Signal and EMPAC, this performance will feature live-manipulated projections created by Suzanne Bocanegra. April 27, 2018. Buy tickets HERE

Part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival at BAM, December 12-16. Buy tickets HERE.

At the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH September 30 and October 1, 2017. LINK