Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, new date and venue for Book Launch (October 25, 2001).
THE BODIES THAT
WERE NOT OURS- AND OTHER WRITINGS-
Published by Routledge- in association with inIVA
CHANGE OF DATE
AND VENUE
The book launch will now take place at the Victoria Miro Gallery at 18.30 on
Thursday 25 October 2001
Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. The Bodies That Were Not Ours- gathers Fusco's finest writings since 1995, and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe.
Engaging and provocative, this collection of essays, interviews, performance scripts and foto novelas takes the reader on a tour of our current multicultural landscape. Fusco explores such issues as Frantz Fanon's theorization of metropolitan blackness, sex tourism in Cuba as a barometer of the island's entry into the global economy, and artistic and net activist responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace.
Fusco, whose previous publications include English is Broken Here (New Press, 1995) and Corpus Delecti (Routledge, 1999) interviews such postcolonial personae as Isaac Julien, Hilton Als and Tracey Moffatt. Approaching the dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries and sociological inquiries collapse boundaries, forming a sustained meditation on how the forces of globalisation impact upon the making of art.
LAUNCH EVENT
Coco Fusco reads extracts from The Bodies That Were Not Ours-, and will be appearing
in conversation with writer and film-maker John Akomfrah.
25.10.01 at 18.30; Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road (off City Rd), London
N1 7RW
Nearest Tubes: Old Street and Angel
This event is free, but places will be allocated on a first come, first served
basis.
PUBLISHING INFORMATION
The Bodies That
Were Not Ours- And Other Writings-
Published: October 2001
246x174mm: 284pp: illus. 30 b+w photos and 12 page colour insert-
Hardback: £55.00, ISBN: 0-415-25173-7. Paperback: £14.99-, ISBN:
0-415-25174-5
To order your copy please call the customer hotline: +44 (0)20 8700 768 853
For further information,
please contact Natasha Anderson or Stuart Croft
on +44 (0)20 7729 9616 or email: institute@iniva.org