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documentation of performance work on violence against women from 1977-1982
ARIADNE: A Social Art Network is the conceptual framework for all the performance work on violence against women produced by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz Starus between 1977 and 1982.
“My great, great grandmother, Louisa Briggs was known as a vocal activist, described in an 1872 edition of the Melbourne Argus as ‘a most resolute lady’. Louisa was often spoken about as being strong-minded, hard working, known for her kindness, her love of children, her humour, fearlessness and courage. In 1876, Louisa led a rebellion against government plans to sell Coranderrk and relocate its residents by writing numerous letters of protest to the Aborigines Protection Board.