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Roof Is on Fire
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Object Description
Faculty
Lacy, Suzanne
Title
Roof
Is
on
Fire
Department
Fine Arts
Graduate Studies-Public Practice
Other Creators
Jacoby, Annice
Johnson, Chris
Date
1994
Series
Oakland Projects
Project
Suzanne
Lacy
,
Annice
Jacoby
,
Chris
Johnson
(Oakland
1993-4)<p>
In
June
,
Oakland
teenagers
made
national
news
twice
in
one
week
. The
first
was a
youth
“riot”
after
the
city’s
annual
summer
festival
.
Windows
were
broken
,
stones
thrown
, and
cans
of
mace
sprayed
.
Later
investigation
revealed
the
role
of the
police
in
escalating
what
began
as a
minor
incident
, but an
enduring
legacy
was a
television
news
clip
of a
youth
putting
his
foot
through
a
plate
glass
window
--
an
instant
replay
that
captured
the
imagination
of a
country
afraid
of its
own
offspring.<p>
One
week
later
,
national
television
again
trained
its
cameras
on
Oakland
, but this
time
young
people
were in
control
of the
message
. The
Roof
Is
On
Fire
,
TEAM’s
first
large-scale
performance
art
event
,
featured
220
public
high
school
students
in
unscripted
and
unedited
conversations
on
family
,
sexuality
,
drugs
,
music
,
neighborhoods
and the
future
as they
sat
in
100
cars
parked
on a
rooftop
garage
. With
cameras
rolling
and
audience
members
roaming
from
car
to
car
to
listen
, the
production
had the
haunting
familiarity
of
images
on the
evening
news
. But
unlike
the
typical
newscast
, this
story
had a
different
twist
:
youth
represented
themselves
. The
Roof
Is
On
Fire
was
aired
as a
one-hour
documentary
by the
Bay
Area’s
local
NBC
affiliate
and was
covered
extensively
on
local
news
and
national
CNN
.
Medium
Performance
Site
Oakland, CA
Notes
Performance
with
220
teenagers
Culture
U.S.
URL
http://www.suzannelacy.com/1990soakland_roof_overview.htm
Rights
Suzanne Lacy
Collection
Faculty Work
Description
Faculty
Lacy, Suzanne
Title
Roof
Is
on
Fire
ImageID
otisfaclacy71
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On a
rooftop
garage
in
downtown
Oakland
Project
On a
rooftop
garage
in
downtown
Oakland
, an
audience
of
1,000
and
press
eavesdrop
on
220
teenagers
talking
in
parked
cars
about
critical
issues
of
urban
life
, an
opportunity
to
reconstruct
their
identity
in the
media
.
Rights
photo: Nakamoto
Collection
Faculty Work
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