Bodycast, an Artist Talk by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand

A story about Beauty, Small Town Texas, Orthopedic Surgery and Classical Sculpture.
Part artist talk, part performance, part essay, part live video installation.

New York-based artist Suzanne Bocanegra talks about her work, channeled through Academy Award winning actor Frances McDormand. Together – sort of – they tell a tale of Titian, girls drill teams, rose queens, scoliosis, and the history of how artists are taught to make art, and how all of us are taught to look at it.

Suzanne Bocanegra is an artist living and working in New York City. A recipient of the Rome Prize, she has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her recent work involves large-scale performance and installation, frequently translating two dimensional information, images and ideas from the past into three dimensional scenarios for staging, movement, ballet, and music.

This program was made possible by the University of Washington School of Drama.