Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited, and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.

Fusco's performances and videos have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and the National Review of Live Art. Her 1993 documentary about her caged Amerindian performance with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The Couple in the Cage, has been screened at over two hundred venues around the world. She curated a comprehensive exhibition on racial taxonomy in American photography for the International Center for Photography, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, that also toured. Her video, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, was selected for the 2004 Shanghai Biennale and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 2005. Her video, Els Segadors, commissioned by the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam in 2001 was featured in the ICP’s first Triennial in 2003. Her video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10, received an honorable mention from the 2003 Transmediale Festival in Berlin.

Fusco’s writings have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Nation, Ms., Frieze, Third Text, and Nka: Journal of African Art, as well as a number of anthologies. She is the co-founder and co-moderator of Undercurrents, an on-line discussion about feminism, new technologies and globalization. In 2008 Fusco was appointed as Chair of Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School for Design.

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Coco Fusco: An Interview