Thursday, 19 June 2025, 12:30 pm

Suzanne Lacy and Chus Martínez in conversation

Perspectives on masculinities, politics, and violence
Free admission, no booking required, in English, lunch included
Venue: Theatre Basel

>> As part of Social Fight Club Festival

Suzanne Lacy (*1945)  is a pioneer of feminist and activist performance art. With her participatory Social Practice, often realized in cooperation with local communities, the Los Angeles based artist campaigns against social injustices and for marginalized groups. Since the early 1970s, she has been focussing attention on rape, giving a public voice to individuals who identify as women, and naming the patriarchal roots of this violence.

Born in Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. She is a writer and curator, Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and associate curator of TBA21 in Madrid/Venice. She is the Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (on view until 12 October 2025) and a board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums). Her publications include The Complex Answer. On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence, Sternberg Press 2023, and Like This. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art, Hatje Cantz Verlag (2022).

In cooperation with Theatre Basel.