LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON & ELEANOR COPPOLA, moderated by Amelia Jones

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An enlightening look back at these young, radical, activist artists and their complex social experiments, March 15, 2017.

YBCA presents a conversation with artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and filmmaker, artist, and writer Eleanor Coppola, moderated by art historian, critic, and curator Amelia Jones, that brings focus to Hershman Leeson’s early pioneering works of radical social performances and activism of the 1960s–1980s.

This intimate dialogue—with an emphasis on Roberta Breitmore (1973–78) and Hershman Leeson’s early social practice—also covers Hershman Leeson and Coppola’s collaborative work, The Dante Hotel (1973–74), an almost year-long project from which Hershman Leeson’s Roberta Breitmore performance evolved. The Dante Hotel invited the public to imagine the life of fictitious individuals through personal and other objects left behind in a hotel room. Hershman Leeson and Coppola also collaborated on RE: Forming Familiar Environments (1975), which took place in Coppola’s home.