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Leslie Labowitz-Starus was born in August 28, 1946 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. She is an artist and urban farmer living in Los Angeles. Starus is the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. She earned her MFA from Otis in 1972, then moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar. In Düsseldorf Starus attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where she studied with Joseph Beuys. When she returned to Los Angeles in 1977, Starus worked at the Women's Building, a cultural center just east of Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles devoted to feminist art and cultural change.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sprout Sensation : Shifting her focus from confrontational works, performance artist Leslie Labowitz-Starus turns to farming. )〕 From 1977 to 1980 Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy collaborated on a series of large-scale performances that often took place in public settings. They co-founded Ariadne: A Social Art Network, a support system for women artists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pacific Standard Time )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leslie Labowitz-Starus » Pacific Standard Time at the Getty )〕 In 1977, Starus and Lacy created ''Three Weeks in May'' to increase visibility and start conversations about sexual violence against women. The artist updated a map with reports from the Los Angeles Police Department, printing the word "rape" on spots on a map of the greater L.A. area wherever a rape was reported. Over thirty events were produced during the 21 days of the piece including demonstrations, news media interviews and self-defense classes. The artists created "In Mourning and In Rage" as a reaction to the “Hillside Strangler” murders in Los Angeles. This performance art activist piece took place on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall and was a major media intervention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A People's Art History of the United States )〕 In November, 1978, Starus and Lacy orchestrated "Take Back the Night" in San Francisco where 3,000 women marched with a candle-lit and decorated Madonna being carried through the streets as if in a religious parade. But the back of the Madonna was open and inside was a skinned lamb, draped in scarlet with pornography pouring from its entrails. Starting in 1979 Starus increasingly began to think of growing sprouts by the terms of performance art. In the early 1980s Starus created two ephemeral installations in New York city with the walls covered in sprouts. The artist began to grow and sell sprouts at local farmers markets. Starus decided to educate herself about business and learned bookkeeping, hired employees and. By 1987 Starus' company Sproutime grew 3,000 pounds of 50 varieties of lettuce and 25 spicy salad. After several years of working from her back yard in Venice, she bought a farm in a residential/agricultural area of Canoga Park. Between 1988 and 1992, Starus' Sproutime grew at a rate of 20% a year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sprout Sensation : Shifting her focus from confrontational works, performance artist Leslie Labowitz-Starus turns to farming. )〕 Starus regularly employs artists, and considers Sproutime to be a work of interactive art whose participants include her co-workers and her customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Crop of Growers Sprouts as Southland Keeps Crowding Out Traditional Agriculture : URBAN FARMING )〕 In 2012 as part of the Getty Foundation funded Pacific Standard Time initiative, Starus and Lacy invited Elana Mann and Audrey Chan to re-perform Myths of Rape.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Myths of Rape - Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz-Starus - Interview : Christine Palma : KXLU Los Angeles 88.9 FM )〕 Leslie Labowitz-Starus' art work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, and has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Getty Museum.〔 * http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/12/entertainment/la-et-cm-hammer-museum-three-weeks-suzanne-lacy-rape-20121212 〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leslie Labowitz-Starus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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