PERFORMANCE

Suzanne Bocanegra: Farmhouse / Whorehouse

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
7:30 PM

Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$41
TICKETS + INFORMATION

The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. What’s weird is that they turn out to be fascinating, compelling: a seemingly bad idea gone right. This one is about how Bocanegra’s grandparents lived across the street from the legendary Chicken Ranch in rural Texas.  Lili Taylor is the only actor who’s done more than one of these.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep it American at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill.