I first met the seminal Los Angeles feminist performance and visual artist and activist Leslie Labowitz in 1979 when I was the curator at Franklin Furnace in New York. She was already known for her collaborative works with Suzanne Lacy confronting violence against women including Myths About Rape (1977), four performances performed over four days at the Los Angeles Mall; In Mourning and in Rage (1977), a memorial for women murdered and raped by the Hillside Stranglers performed on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall; and Take Back the Night (1978), performed at the Women Against Violence in Pornography conference in San Francisco. The year 1980 proved a major turning point in her work and career and the beginning of our more than four decades of conversations about art, politics, ecology, and the creative process. In August 2021, I interviewed her about her forty-year art/life project SPROUTIME, and...

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