The artist, dancer and educator Suzanne Harris (1940–79) was a protagonist of the downtown New York City artists' community in the 1970s. With her boundary-transgressing work, she played a decisive part in avant-garde projects, such as the Anarchitecture group, 112 Greene Street, FOOD, and the Natural History of the American Dancer. Harris furthermore participated in the Heresies editorial collective. Even so, her own oeuvre fell into obscurity.

Friederike Schäfer (Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters"), in An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists' Community in the 1970s, reconstructs Harris's scattered, postminimalist body of work, which broke the mould of art categories, art practices, art spaces, and the common notion of space. Schäfer draws on post-Marxist feminist theory to trace how Harris transcended both sculpture and dance to create site-specific, ephemeral installations.

The book, which received a Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant 2021, was first published in 2023. It is now available in its second, revised edition as an eBook (De Gruyter, 2025).