Ulrike Rosenbach & Suzanne Lacy
You can see a green landscape with a river meandering through it. The picture shows a bird's eye view of nine people in yellow rain jackets and yellow canoes paddling along the river.
Artist Talk
Fri, November 03, 2023 7 pm CET, Talk
Media Lounge
Language: English

Two pioneers of performance and video art, Ulrike Rosenbach and Suzanne Lacy, in conversation about their common artistic beginnings in the women's and civil rights movements of the 1970s and parallel developments in their works.
 
Ulrike Rosenbach is one of the most renowned German media artists. Since the early 1970s she has been using the then new medium of video in live video actions, performances and installations. Her focus is on questions of female identity, gender-specific role attributions, and the holistic relationship between humans and nature. With her works and teaching assignments at art academies in Germany, the USA, Austria and the Netherlands, she has had a decisive influence on the development of performance and media art. 
 
The American artist Suzanne Lacy is an outstanding protagonist of socially engaged and public performance art. She coined the term New Genre Public Art – a public, mostly activist motivated art, apart from institutional structures. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S.  

The talk is organized in the context of the solo exhibition »Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow«. Beforehand, at 5.30 pm there will be a curatorial tour of the exhibition by Philipp Ziegler.

Open Gallery
  • What can be seen is a green landscape shrouded in grey haze. Facing the viewer are new people, all in yellow mackintoshes, releasing yellow kites into the air.
  • In the foreground is the artist Suzanne Lacy and in the background you can see many people sitting together in a circle of chairs.
  • From a bird's eye view, you can see many people sitting together in a kind of circle of chairs, or spiral, that turns inwards.
  • A woman in a yellow T-shirt embraces a child who is also wearing yellow, the faces are not visible. The focus is on the arms that are embracing.
  • Performance of Ulrike Rosenbach's "Die einsame Spaziergängerin" (The Lonely Walker), the artist, dressed all in white, holds a pole and walks in a semicircle along a path while being filmed.
  • Performance of Ulrike Rosenbach's "Die einsame Spaziergängerin" (The Lonely Walker), the artist, dressed all in white, holds a pole and walks in a semicircle along a path while being filmed. In the background you can see a large audience.
  • Ulrike Rosenbach, »Mon Petit Chou«, 1972

Overview
  • What can be seen is a green landscape shrouded in grey haze. Facing the viewer are new people, all in yellow mackintoshes, releasing yellow kites into the air.
  • In the foreground is the artist Suzanne Lacy and in the background you can see many people sitting together in a circle of chairs.
  • From a bird's eye view, you can see many people sitting together in a kind of circle of chairs, or spiral, that turns inwards.
  • A woman in a yellow T-shirt embraces a child who is also wearing yellow, the faces are not visible. The focus is on the arms that are embracing.
  • Performance of Ulrike Rosenbach's "Die einsame Spaziergängerin" (The Lonely Walker), the artist, dressed all in white, holds a pole and walks in a semicircle along a path while being filmed.
  • Performance of Ulrike Rosenbach's "Die einsame Spaziergängerin" (The Lonely Walker), the artist, dressed all in white, holds a pole and walks in a semicircle along a path while being filmed. In the background you can see a large audience.
  • Ulrike Rosenbach, »Mon Petit Chou«, 1972
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