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Coco Fusco
Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
By Olga Viso, Julia Bryan-Wilson (Text by), Coco Fusco (Text by)

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Hardback, 240 pages
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United Kingdom, 1 October 2023

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.

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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.

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Product Details
EAN
9780500024928
ISBN
0500024928
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Dimensions
27.7 x 21.8 x 2.5 centimeters (1.42 kg)

Table of Contents

Tomorrow I Will Become an Island: Olga Viso
Introduction: Coco Fusco
The Politics of Discomfort: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Corporeality and Critique: Jill Lane
Inverting the Frame: Anna Gritz
Coco Fusco and the Empty Spaces of Havana: Antonio José Ponte
Body of Work, 1988–2022: Compiled by Ursula Davila-Villa and Anna Stothart
Exhibition and Performance History
Artist’s Writings
Selected Bibliography
Contributors

About the Author

Olga Viso is an art historian and curator of contemporary visual art. She was executive director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis from 2007 to 2017. Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. Anna Gritz is a curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Jill Lane is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Antonio José Ponte is a Madrid-based Cuban author, poet and essayist.

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