Urban Honking

Monday, May 21

6:00pm Coco Fusco @ PSU

Coco Fusco
PSU Art & Social Practice MFA Lecture Series

Monday, May 21st at 6:00 pm (SPECIAL TIME)
PSU: Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Ave

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and Chair of the Fine Art Department at Parsons/The New School for Design. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been included in such events as the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). Fusco’s work combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Her most recent work deals with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Those works include Operation Atropos (a film about interrogation training), and A Room of One’s Own (a monologue about female interrogators). These works were selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

For more information on Coco go to: http://www.alexandergray.com/artists/coco-fusco/