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Object Description
Faculty
Lacy, Suzanne
Title
Take
Back
the
Night
Department
Fine Arts
Graduate Studies-Public Practice
Other Creators
Labowitz, Leslie
Date
1978
Series
Violence Series
Project
Take
Back
the
Night
revealed
the
Madonna/whore
dichotomy
that
inspires
pornography
. The
first
national
“Perspectives
in
Pornography”
conference
was an
important
opportunity
to
include
women
visual
artists
in
political
organizing
.
Ariadne
: A
Social
Art
Network
,
invited
artists
from
around
the
state
to
offer
events
,
performances
, and
exhibitions
for the
conference
planned
by
Women
against
Violence
and
Pornography
in the
Media
.
Motion
, a
San
Francisco
performance
collective
organized
a
panel
of
female
eroticism
and
art
and
created
rituals
to
open
and
close
the
conference
.
Micki
McGee
and
Mary
Lynn
Hughes
designed
a
bus
poster
and
printed
postcard
series
on
violence
. The
Feminist
Art
Workers
created
a
tour/art
performance
for
women
artists
traveling
from
Los
Angeles.<p>
On
Saturday
evening
Lacy
and
Labowitz
,
along
with
Monica
Mayer
,
Rosemarie
Prins
,
Betsy
Irons
and
Ann
Klix
created
a
mass
public
performance
for
3000
women
marchers
who
left
the
conference
and.
marched
on the
Broadway
strip
,
San
Francisco’s
porn
district
. There they
greeted
a
brightly-lit
float
with
chants
and
ululations
.
Holly
Near
sang
“Fight
Back”
as a
two
sided
float
moved
slowly
through
the
crowds—its
front
a
Madonna
bedecked
with
flowers
and
electric
candles
after
the
Santa
Semana
celebrations
in
Latin
America
and its
back
a
three
headed
lamb
carcass
,
like
the
goddess
Hecate
,
whose
open
gut
cavity
leaked
layers
of
black
and
white
pornography
.
Marchers
ripped
the
pornography
from the
backside
of the
float
as
it
went
by.
Medium
Performance
Site
San Francisco, CA
Culture
U.S.
URL
http://www.suzannelacy.com/1970sviolence_takeback.htm
Rights
L. Labowitz and S. Lacy
Collection
Faculty Work
Description
Faculty
Lacy, Suzanne
Title
Take
Back
the
Night
ImageID
otisfaclacy81
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Women
march
on
Broadway
strip
to
protest
violent
pornography
Rights
photo: Rob Blalock
Collection
Faculty Work
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