 A group piece, "In Mourning and in Rage", created by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, featured 10 tall women, wearing 7-foot-tall head extensions, draped in black, standing on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall.Each woman represented a victim of the Hillside Strangler and a statistic of violence against women.Works such as these are credited with shaping the contemporary performance art scene.