Creative Time & Brooklyn Museum Present: Between The Door And The Street
This fall, Creative Time and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum will presentBetween the Door and the Street, a major work by the internationally celebrated artist Suzanne Lacy, perhaps the most important socially-engaged artist working today. On October 19, some 300 women and a few men–all selected to represent a cross-section of ages, backgrounds, and perspectives–will gather on the stoops along a residential street in Brooklyn, where they will engage in unscripted conversations about a variety of issues related to gender politics today. Wander among the groups (of which ELIXHER will be one) listen to what they are saying, and form your own opinions!
Between the Door and the Street grew out of a series of deep and wide-ranging conversations between Lacy and a group of activist women, held over the course of five months. Lacy considers this preparatory work to be a key part of the project as a whole, and their ideas, expertise, and principles have informed the project.
This project builds on Lacy’s rich body of work devoted to issues of feminism, including Silver Action, presented at Tate Modern, London, earlier this year; The Tattooed Skeleton, at t
he Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, in 2010; andCleaning Conditions, part of the Do It exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery, in summer 2013. This is her first public project in New York City.
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As a photographer, I looked forward and was very excited about Between the Door and the Street event. The event was well organized and the participants (ordinary members of our society) had lots of courage to publicly discuss some of the very private social issues that they experience in their lives.
However, I feel the event was not successful as a Social Art. Many already mentioned that it was hard for the audience to hear the discussions. This was an important oversight by the organizers. What’s the value of what is being said if participants can’t hear it? This could have been easily addressed by not creating a distance between the audience and the participants. I felt the distance that was put in place from the start also prevented audience’s participation in the discussion later on.
More importantly, I felt the event lacked artistic tension. The discussions were happening among like-minded participants. There was no opposing voice, disagreement and debate. This took away from artistic side of the event and the event ended up being a social gathering rather than Social Art.
I have posted some of the photos of the event to my photo journal: http://www.nasserk.com/Journal/Between-the-Door-the-Street
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