Laura Farabough
American performance artist and director (1949–2022)
Laura Farabough (24 July 1949 – 2022) was an American performance artist and director.
Life and work
Farabough grew up in Los Angeles and dropped out of school when she was 16; she first sought the company of visual artists, then theater. She worked mainly in California.
She founded Snake Theater, a performance group, together with Christopher Hardman in Sausalito, California in the mid-1970s. Toured with Fool Asleep in 1974, at various colleges in California. Farabough's work was site-specific in many cases, such as Somewhere in the Pacific (1977) and Surface Tension (1981). The first piece was for Cronkhite Beach and the second for swimming pools. Hardman and Farabough toured Mexico with a Spanish translation of two of their pieces in 1976. The trip, which Farabough later described as a sort of "pilgrimage," increased their interest in aspects of religion and ritual (Bell 60). Other works were performed in beauty parlors, locker rooms, abandoned gas stations, and theaters.
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