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Concept of Awareness for the Exhibition
Suzanne Lacy: By Your Own Hand
9 April 2025 – 7 September 2025
The Museum Tinguely is frequented by a wide variety of visitors. This diversity enriches the museum. All people should feel comfortable and safe in the museum. We ask all visitors to take care, be respectful of other visitors, and take responsibility for positive interaction.
We show different types of art at the Museum Tinguely, ranging from joyful and playful artistic approaches to works addressing serious, sociopolitical topics that can elicit feelings of sadness and anger.
From 9 April to 7 September 2025, we will present the exhibition Suzanne Lacy: By Your Own Hand at the Museum Tinguely. The thirty-minute video installation will be shown in two alternating versions, one with English/Spanish subtitles and the other with German subtitles. In the installation, texts that were predominantly written by people who identify as women are read aloud by people who identify as men. The texts tell of experiences of sexualized, gender-based, and domestic violence. They include descriptions of experiences of child abuse, violence, rape, group rape, and femicide.
We have taken the following measures to ensure the well-being of our visitors:
- We explicitly and clearly warn visitors about the content of the exhibition.
- Children must be accompanied by their parents to visit the exhibition.
- We have appointed contact people in our team who are stationed in the entrance area of the museum. They have received special training from Opferhilfe beider Basel, a local organization that offers support to victims of violence.
- We offer visitors information on services for victims of violence, which can be accessed by QR code at the entrance to the exhibition and is also available from our specially trained staff.
- We offer visitors a safe space that is concealed from view in the immediate vicinity of the exhibition.
- We have planned a program of events in which we discuss and review the subject matter of the exhibition.
- In preparation for the exhibition, we received counseling from Opferhilfe beider Basel about dealing with the topic of gender-based, sexualized, and domestic violence as well as regarding the materials and media published within the framework of this exhibition.
- We provided the museum staff with information about the exhibition and its subject matter and organized a briefing on awareness.
If you did not feel comfortable in the exhibition, please contact us by email at tinguelybasel.infos@roche.com. Your message will be kept confidential. We also welcome your comments on our awareness concept.