Coco Fusco: “The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State” (copy)
September 20, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
In this talk, Coco Fusco offers some of her subjective observations about how artists in Cuba are part of social and political movements that address state repression and questions of social equity. She draws on concrete examples of individual artists and artistic movements whose practice revolves around public stagings and performances of political action.
About the Speaker
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a Professor of Art at Cooper Union. She is the recipient of honors including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, Latinx Artist Fellowship, Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her performances and videos have been presented in exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, and two Whitney Biennials. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. Her most recent book is Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015).
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a Professor of Art at Cooper Union. She is the recipient of honors including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, Latinx Artist Fellowship, Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her performances and videos have been presented in exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, and two Whitney Biennials. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. Her most recent book is Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015).
