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Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer.
She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the
world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here
(The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other
Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti:
Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin
Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco
is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is
an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia
University’s School of the Arts.
Fusco’s recent art projects 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. In collaboration
with Ricardo Dominguez, Fusco is currently developing a bilingual
on-line game that maps the movements of and restraints upon the
various social groups that inhabit the US-Mexico border for the
2005 InSite Biennial. She is currently developing a serious of
new performances and videos about the role of female interrogators
in the War on Terror.
Fusco's works have been included in such events as The Whitney
Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju
Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil.
Her 1993 documentary about her caged Amerindian performance with
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The Couple in the Cage, has
been screened in over two hundred venues around the world. Her
latest video, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, was selected for the
2004 Shanghai Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art;s Documentary
Fortnight in 2005. Her video installation, Dolores from 10 to
10, received an honorable mention from the 2003 Transmediale in
Berlin. The exhibition that she curated for the International
Center of Photography on racial taxonomy in American photography,
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, is currently
touring the U.S. |
