The Bodies That Were Not Ours

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.

The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings

Fusco, Coco

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

Young British and Black : The Work of Sankofa and Black Audio Film Collective

Hallwalls/Contemporary Arts Center

Juan Franciso Elso

Weiss, Rachel

Viso, Olga

Moreno, Gean

Durham, Jimmie

Hernández, Orlando

Matamoros, Corina

Gómez, Fernando

Medina, Cuahtemoc

James, Erica Moiah

Iturbide, Gabriela

Tellez, Javier

Lara, Magali

Suter, Gerardo

Miami : [NAME] Publications

When Coco Fusco and collaborator Guillermo Gomez-Pena toured the country in a cage as "authentic natives," their provocative performance piece enraged some and enthralled others. Known for using performance to explore the boundaries of ethnicity in art, Coco Fusco has now brought her talents to bear in a volume of cultural criticism and theory, English is Broken Here. Infused with a unique cultural sensibility, English is Broken Here examines cross-cultural art issues in America at a crucial moment. Coco Fusco adds an original and eloquent voice to a growing debate over cultural identity and visual politics.

English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The New Press

The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was "just following orders." Ignored were the more elemental questions of how women are functioning within conservative power structures of government and the military. Why do the military and the CIA use female sexuality as an interrogation tactic, and why is this tactic downplayed and even ignored in internal investigations of prisoner abuse? Combining an art project with critical commentary, Coco Fusco imaginatively addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against suspected Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts urgent questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically. Fusco assesses what these matters suggest about how the military and the state use sex, sexuality, and originally feminist notions of sexual freedom.

A Field Guide for Female Interrogators

History

Americas

Seven Stories Press

Examining performance and politics in post-revolutionary Cuba, Dangerous Moves challenges the understanding of performance art and political engagement through a sustained analysis of the contemporary experience in Cuba. Coco Fusco analyzes the ways that the Cuban state has wielded influence over artists in recent times, arguing that in a context in which overt political speech is subject to censorship, the language of performance emerges as the favored means of social commentary. Focusing on a range of performative practices in visual art, music, poetry, and political activism, Fusco examines the relationship between the abject body in performance and the greater body politic of a state officially defined as revolutionary yet seeking to limit and constrain dissent. Dangerous Moves is a key addition to the canon of writing on contemporary performance art.

Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Tate Publishing

The second installment in Afterall's Exhibition Histories series, Making Art Global, Part 1 focuses on the third Havana Biennial, which took place in 1989. In the core essay, Rachel Weiss examines the ways in which this exhibition extended the global territory of contemporary art and redefined the biennial model. Gerardo Mosquera, a key member of the curatorial team, contributes a reflection on the project, and its constituent exhibitions and events are documented photographically. The book also includes a paper delivered by Geeta Kapur at the Biennial conference and republishes reviews of the Biennial by Coco Fusco and Luis Camnitzer. It opens with an introduction by Charles Esche and brings together recent interviews with participating artists Alex Ángeles, José Bedia, Alfredo Márquez and Lázaro Saavedra. Key texts from the time are complemented by new material.

Making Art Global (Part 1): The Third Havana Biennial 1989, Exhibition Histories Vol. 2

Esche, Charles

Kapur, Geeta

Camnitzer, Luis

Afterall Books

A meditation on the ideological conditions shaping contemporary American artistic and architectural practices 
Accompanying an exhibition featuring 37 works by 19 US-based artists, this publication explores the presence of American ideology in art, architecture and design. Artists include John Steuart Curry, Jimmie Durham, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Jill Magid, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler and more.

Lost in America (n.b.k. Ausstellungen, 24)

Allen, Amy

Alberro, Alexander

Audain, Carver

Bruyn, Eric De

Walther Konig

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