FF Alumn Coco Fusco's new book due in October, 2001
The Bodies That
Were Not Ours and other writings by Coco Fusco
Published by Routledge in collaboration with inIVA
Publication date: October, 2001
"Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco has been interpreting intercultural theory and practice since 1985. Her latest book gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe about Fusco's theoretical and performance work.
The essays, interviews, performance scripts and fotonovelas take readers on a tour of the current transcultural 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 net.activist responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace. The book also includes her critical reflection on cyberfeminist theory and the role of maquiladora workers in the global information network, and her newest play, The Incredible Disappearing Woman, about performance, sex and death at the US-Mexico border. Approaching the dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries and sociological inquiries form a sustained meditation on how the forces of globalization impact upon the making of art."
Coco Fusco is a New York based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Visual Arts Program at Columbia University. For more information about her work, please refer to www.thing.net/~cocofusco.
A special book launch event for The Bodies That Were Not Ours featuring Fusco and filmmaker/theorist John Akomfrah will take place at the Lux Cinema in London on October 26 at 6:30pm, hosted by inIVA. For more information contact lux@lux.org.uk or institute@iniva.org.
To order a copy
of Fusco's new book by email contact
book.order@routledge.co.uk