What's On - Suzanne Lacy: Between the Door and the Street

For her first solo-exhibition in Scotland, Suzanne Lacy and Cooper Gallery present an exhibition of material drawn from Lacy's lauded 2013 project for Creative Time and the Brooklyn Museum (New York City), Between the Door and the Street.

Developing out of six months of conversations between Lacy, 400 women and a few men from activist groups in New York City, Between the Door and the Street culminated in a one-day performative public action that took place on 64 stoops in a Brooklyn neighbourhood. Witnessed by over 2500 people who entered the closed-off street, the performance audience became a ‘listening voyeur’ to unscripted conversations among groups of women, identified by yellow pashmina scarves, seated on the steps and porches of individual homes. Choreographed by activist inspired and group generated questions on gender, race, ethnicity and class, the conversations weaved together multiple intergenerational narratives that grappled with the politics of immigration, labour, poverty, all of which have significant impacts on women’s lives.

In 2025, twelve years since Between the Door and the Street happened one Saturday on a street in Brooklyn so much has and hasn’t changed for women around the world. Faced with growing authoritarianism and a profoundly illiberal backlash to decades of progressive change, Lacy’s life-long commitment to the critical issues confronting women today provides a vital clarion call to the necessity of continued community organizing and political activism.

Exhibition opening times: Monday to Saturday, 12-5pm.

Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.