[citation needed] Bocanegra chose to tell the story of how she became an artist and she enlisted actor Paul Lazar to give the lecture, as her.
[citation needed] The result was the performance "When a Priest Marries a Witch, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Paul Lazar.
"[citation needed] Helen Shaw in The New Yorker writes that these are "droll multimedia talks, presented onstage before an audience, ranging across her life and art history, sometimes peering into eccentric corners of Americana.
[citation needed] In each, Bocanegra sits to one side of the stage, at a barely lit table, as an actor does the speaking for her.
Bocanegra is actually murmuring the text into a microphone, and the actor instantly transmits it, repeating what she hears via an in-ear receiver.