COCO FUSCO and MATHIEU K. ABONNENC
Tuesday February 16, at 7pm
In anticipation of the group exhibition “Self as Disappearance” curated by Mathieu K. Abonnenc at La Synagogue de Delme (Feb 19 – May 23), to which she is taking part, the Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco will give a talk and discuss with Abonnenc at the bookstore this Tuesday at 7pm. One of the subjects will be “Buried Pigs with Moros”, an installation through which the artist builds up a history of torture acts directed religious communities, from the Philipine-American to Guantanamo.
A selection of publications by Coco Fusco are available at section 7 books, including “A Field Guide for Female Interrogators” (Seven Stories Press, 2008), and its French edition “Petit manuel de torture à l’usage des femmes-soldats” (Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2008); “Only skin deep: Changing visions of the American self” (Harry Abrams, 2003); “The Bodies That Were Not Ours and other writings” (Routledge/Iniva, 2001); “Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas” (Routledge, 1999), and “English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas”, The New Press, 1995.