“The performance art can’t be as contemplative or detached as the visual art. Theater is a great way to get rid of issues you can’t do in visual art,” Scott notes. In the 1980s, Scott partnered with Kay Lawal to present the “Thunder Thigh Review.” Their performances about obsessive behaviors—from overeating to drugs—exposed society’s prejudices and problems.
Believe I’ve Been Sanctified
1991
Site-Specific Installation
Photograph: John McWilliams,
Spoleto Festival for the Arts,
Charleston, South Carolina
Scott was one of sixteen international artists commissioned by the Spoleto Festival for the Arts to create artworks about the history of the South for sites throughout Charleston, South Carolina. Scott selected the ruined steps and columns of the former Charleston Museum, originally [...]
Times Square
1990
Digital (DVI) projection
Photograph: New York Public Art Fund,
Times Square, New York
For this outdoor work, commissioned by the New York Public Art Fund, Scott programmed the electronic billboard in Times Square with about twenty phrases and images. She intended to make viewers aware of the effects of injustice.
Read Street Window Installation
1982
Photograph: Howard Ehrenfeld,
Baltimore, Maryland
In The Clothes Horse storefront in Baltimore’s midtown neighborhood of Mount Vernon, Scott created a display with clothing and sets she had designed. Over the course of one evening, she periodically changed the costumes, props, and positions of the models, who were artist colleagues. A precursor to her performance [...]
A Bad Mamma Jamma
1982
Collaborative multimedia fashion show
Photograph: Howard Ehrenfeld,
Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, Maryland
This photograph documents a collaborative multimedia fashion show of clothing designed and created by Scott. The backdrops were made by her artist friends Linda DePalma and Paul Daniels. Projected slides of Baltimore neighborhoods (including images of her Read Street Window Installation) were [...]
Yellow-Faced, Lizard-Ridden, Splint-Legged Jar Woman #X
2003
Glass beads, thread, glass jar, African wood stool, and African wood sculpture
Courtesy the artist
Tracey
2003
Beads, thread, and mixed media
Courtesy the artist
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