In mourning and rage [videorecording] / LA Women's Video Center ; co-directors, Nancy Angelo, Annette Hunt. [1978-1979?]

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In mourning and rage [videorecording] / LA Women's Video Center ; co-directors, Nancy Angelo, Annette Hunt. [1978-1979?]

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This video documents a 1977 media performance staged by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz in response to sensational media coverage of the serial rapes and murders in the Los Angeles area committed by the "Hillside Strangler." The performance created a public ritual of rage as well as grief as women dressed in black lead a rally outside City Hall. With positive images of women fighting back and statistics about the pervasiveness of violence against women in all its forms, the performance also offered an alternative interpretation of the case that included a feminist analysis. In the documentary, footage of the performance is combined with responses from city officials, interviews with audience members, and excerpts from news coverage of the event.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (ca. 30 min.) : sd., b&w : 3/4 in. original (6 copies)1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (ca. 30 min.) : sd., b&w : 1/2 in. original.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 30 min.) : sd., b&w : 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Los Angeles Women's Video Center

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In 1976, the Los Angeles Women's Video Center was established at the Woman's Building. Founded by Annette Hunt, Candace Compton, Nancy Angelo, and Jerri Allyn, the Center supported the work of, among others, Nancy Buchanan, Cheri Gaulke, Susan Mogul, Suzanne Lacy, Sheila Ruth, Judith Barry, and Vanalyne Green. An impressive 350 videotapes were produced, many of them during the first decade of the Women's Video Center's existence. In addition to teaching, this group organized the production of n...

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), one of the first independent schools for women artists. The founders established the workshop as a non-profit alternative education center committed to developing art based on women's experiences. The FSW focused not only on the development of art skills, but also on the development of women's experiences and the incorporation of th...

Labowitz, Leslie

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Leslie Labowitz-Starus is an American performance artist and urban farmer based in Los Angeles. Labowitz-Starus worked at the Woman's Building, a cultural center just east of Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles devoted to feminist art and cultural change. From 1977 to 1980, Labowitz-Starus and Suzanne Lacy collaborated on a series of large-scale performances that often took place in public settings. Their first collaboration was In Mourning and in Rage. Together they founded ARIADNE: A Social Art...

Angelo, Nancy

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Nancy Angelo (born October 8, 1953 in Carson City, Nevada, USA) is an organizational psychologist and formerly a performance and video artist who took part in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles. After studying photography in Denmark and attending San Francisco Art Institute, Angelo moved to Los Angeles in 1975 in order to enroll in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building. Shortly after enrolling in the FSW, Angelo immersed herself in performance art and in 1976 she co-founded...

Lacy, Suzanne

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Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as p...

Hunt, Annette,

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