Between 1951 and 1974, a University of Pennsylvania professor named Dr. Albert M. Kligman oversaw medical experiments conducted on incarcerated people at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. Carolyn Lazard’s film appropriates the experiment documentation and juxtaposes them with the voice of Edward Yusuf Anthony, a survivor of Kligman’s experiments.
Carolyn Lazard is an artist and writer based in Philadelphia and New York. Their work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in several institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Nottingham Contemporary; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Lazard was included in the 2019 and 2024 Whitney Biennial, the 2021 Greater New York, the 2022 Venice Biennale, and the 2023 NGV Triennial. Lazard is a 2019 Pew Fellow, a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Carolyn Lazard received a BA (2010) from Bard College and an MFA (2019) from the University of Pennsylvania.