ISBN Coco Fusco book 240 pages

Featuring contributions by renowned scholars of art history, performance art and Cuban cultural politics as well as an essay by the artist herself, Tomorrow, I will become an island offers a comprehensive review of Coco Fusco’s 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 construction of the self and perceptions of cultural difference. Her work has critically examined society from a postcolonial perspective, engaging with debates about cultural politics throughout the Americas, Europe and elsewhere. This expansive approach is highlighted through a broad range of works that address themes including post-revolutionary Cuba, racial stereotypes, feminist politics, animal psychology, ethnographic displays, suppressed colonial records, military interrogation and sex tourism.

About the Author
Olga Viso is an art historian and curator of contemporary visual art. She was executive director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis from 2007 to 2017. Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. Anna Gritz is a curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Jill Lane is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Antonio José Ponte is a Madrid-based Cuban author, poet and essayist.