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The first monograph on the influential contemporary
Cuban–American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco.
Tomorrow, I will become an island is the first in-depth study of
the performances, videos and social practice of the influential
Cuban–American artist Coco Fusco. Featuring contributions by
renowned scholars of art history, performance art and Cuban
cultural politics as well as an essay by the artist herself, the
book offers a comprehensive review of Fusco’s interdisciplinary
art practice and her transnational perspective on race, gender and
power. For more than three decades, Fusco has been a leader in
conversations around the intersection of identity, feminism,
culture, and politics in the Americas and beyond. Emerging during
the 1980s as a pioneering advocate of multiculturalism in the arts,
Fusco utilizes performance, video, exhibition making, archival
research and writing to reflect upon the ways that intercultural
relations and colonial histories shape the construction of the self
and perceptions of cultural difference. Her work has critically
examined society from a postcolonial perspective, engaging with
debates about cultural politics throughout the Americas, Europe and
elsewhere. This expansive approach is highlighted through a broad
range of works that address themes including post-revolutionary
Cuba, racial stereotypes, feminist politics, animal psychology,
ethnographic displays, suppressed colonial records, military
interrogation and sex tourism. The book will accompany an
international touring retrospective of the artist’s work starting
in 2023.
Author Biography: Coco Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999). She is an associate professor at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University.
The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance. Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco's collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are: * body art * carpa * vaudeville * staged political protest * tropicalist musical comedies * contemporary Venezuelan performance art * the Chicano Art movement * queer Latino performance The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.
Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work. Engaging and provocative, these essays, interviews, performance scripts and fotonovelas take readers on a tour of our current multicultural landscape. Fusco explores such issues as sex tourism in Cuba as a barometer of the island's entry into the global economy, Frantz Fanon's theorization of metropolitan blackness, and artistic and net activist responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace. She interviews such postcolonial personnae as Isaac Julien, Hilton Als and Tracey Moffatt. Approaching the dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries, and sociological inquiries collapse boundaries, and form a sustained meditation on how the forces of globalization impact upon the making of art.
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