Suzanne Lacy
Three Weeks in January: End Rape in Los Angeles, 2012 Documentary film Performance 12 January - 27 January, 2012
Three Weeks in January saw Lacy revisit thirty-five years later her earlier performance project Three Weeks in May. Once again, a large-scale map of Los Angeles was erected, this time outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, and the previous day’s reported rape cases were added to the map on a daily basis. A series of performance events took place during the work’s run, along with a soundtrack of rape survivors and a social media campaign. Lacy’s focus was now broader, and reflected ongoing concerns in Los Angeles including the increase in reported rape cases on college campuses. By returning to her earlier work, Lacy was able to inquire into how social responses to sexual violence against women might have changed in over thirty years, and also how they had not.
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