Coco Fusco

In Urban Scénos Dakar

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One could say that the symbolic status of the Slave House at Gorée for African-Americans is something akin to Mecca or the Wailing Wall. There are no memorial sites in the United States that commemorate the slave trade — a lacuna best understood as
a politically motivated erasure. Out of that absence emerges the desire of to visit the Senegalese memorial in order to imagine a collective past. Our pilgrimages to this place enact a ritual of fantasmatic projection: through this fantasy of “return” we imagine that we can recover – albeit affectively — the traumatic loss of the African part of ourselves that our hyphenated ethnic identifications elide.

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Coco Fusco

Cuba – USA
artiste, auteur / artist, author

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Coco Fusco (born June 18, 1960 in New York City) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer who began her career in 1988. Fusco has performed and curated throughout America and internationally, and currently is full-time faculty in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design. Her recent work combines electronic media and performance in several formats, including large scale projections, and live performances streamed to the internet, inviting audiences to chart live-chat interaction. She is now developing a series of performances exploring the role of female interrogators in the War of Terror. Fusco’s work explores the relationship between women and society, war, politics and race .

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Coco Fusco (né le 18 Juin 1960 à New York) est un artiste cubano-américaine interdisciplinaire et écrivain qui a commencé sa carrière en 1988. Coco Fusco a réalisé et organisé dans toute l’Amérique et à l’étranger, et elle est actuellement professeur à temps plein à la Parsons New School for Design (New York). Ses travaux récents combinent les médias électroniques et la performance dans plusieurs formats, y compris les projections à grande échelle, et des spectacles en streaming sur internet, invitant le public à des live-chat. Elle est en train d’élaborer une série de spectacles explorant le rôle des interrogateurs féminins dans la War of Terror. Le travail de Coco Fusco explore la relation entre les femmes et la société, la guerre, la politique et la race.