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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on the influential contemporary CubanâAmerican interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco. Tomorrow, I will become an island is the first in-depth study of the performances, videos and social practice of the influential CubanâAmerican artist Coco Fusco. Featuring contributions by renowned scholars of art history, performance art and Cuban cultural politics as well as an essay by the artist herself, the book offers a comprehensive review of Fuscoâs interdisciplinary art practice and her transnational perspective on race, gender and power. For more than three decades, Fusco has been a leader in conversations around the intersection of identity, feminism, culture, and politics in the Americas and beyond. Emerging during the 1980s as a pioneering advocate of multiculturalism in the arts, Fusco utilizes performance, video, exhibition making, archival research and writing to reflect upon the ways that intercultural relations and colonial histories shape the co
Trade Review'This beautiful book looks back at [Coco Fusco's] influential work, including many of her memorable performances, in the three decades since she emerged on the scene in the 1990s. It’s an unfinished story as Fusco is still making work and publishing words that bring deep discomfort to the powers to be' - Hyperallergic
Table of ContentsTomorrow I Will Become an Island: Olga Viso
Introduction: Coco Fusco
The Politics of Discomfort: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Corporeality and Critique: Jill Lane
Inverting the Frame: Anna Gritz
Coco Fusco and the Empty Spaces of Havana: Antonio José Ponte
Body of Work, 1988–2022: Compiled by Ursula Davila-Villa and Anna Stothart
Exhibition and Performance History
Artist’s Writings
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
