"About five years ago, I recognized that I had completed a cycle as an artist and that I had to rethink my way of working and my focus if I was going to grow. The next two years were absolutely agonizing. I destroyed dozens of scripts and essays. I vowed not to work with any electronic equipment in order to define what my own physical and mental space was, and for one year only performed live with firelight. Near the end of that year, all the trouble I had had making creative decisions disappeared and new work emerged. The precipice turned out to be a grueling but needed step." Whether she is performing, creating video installations, writing for a wide variety of publications (from Art in America to The Nation,) or encouraging the exchange of ideas in face-to-face intercultural interaction or on the web, interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco is attempting to disrupt the dominant discourse. Her current work focuses on the social impact of globalization and technology on subaltern peoples.* Playing with ethnographic documentary paradigms, soap operas, talk shows and variety show formats, surveillance cameras and closed circuit television, she examines how different cinematic and televisual genres shape perception. Embodied, engaged, and critical, her innovative practice assertively troubles the waters of contemporary culture. *In critical theory, subaltern refers to subjugated, colonized or disenfranchised peoples.

Born 1960, New York City Lives in New York City 1985 M.A., Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University 1982 B.A., Literature and Society and Semiotics, Brown University

	2003	The Incredible Disappearing Woman, a multimedia performance with video projections
	2002	Dolores from 10 to 10 (video installation), based on net.performance with Ricardo Dominguez
	1999	Els Segadors (video)
	1999-00	Votos (performance)
	1997	Rights of Passage (performance)
	1996-99	Stuff (performance) with Nao Bustamante
	1995	Pochonovela (video)
	1993	The Couple in the Cage (video)
	1990	Norte:Sur (installation/performance) with Guillermo Gomez-Pe–a

	2003	Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, editor, Abrams (forthcoming)
	2001	The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings, Routledge/INIVA
	2000	Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, editor, Routledge
	1995	English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas, The New Press

	2003	Honorable Mention, Transmediale, Berlin
	2002	Arts International Touring Sponsorship Grant
	1998	Multi-Arts Production Fund, Rockefeller Foundation
	1998	Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
	1995	Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Artist's Fellowship
	1991	New York State Council on the Arts, Media Program
	1991	National Endowment for the Arts, Interarts
	1991, 97	New York Foundation for the Arts, Non-Fiction Fellowships

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