Brooklyn, NY
Coco Fusco creates performances and videos about intercultural relations. Fusco is best known for her performance The Couple in the Cage (1993), in which she and artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña posed as Amerindians on display at various museums. The piece mocked the ethnographic treatment of indigenous people and served as a satirical commentary on the concurrent quincentenary celebrations of Columbus’s discovery of America. In a more recent work, A Room of One’s Own (2006), she explores military torture and gender, playing an interrogator training women recruits. Fusco is also a writer and Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design.La Plaza Vacia (video still), 2012; photo credit Coco Fusco
La Plaza Vacia (video still), 2012; photo credit Coco Fusco
Brooklyn, NY
Coco Fusco creates performances and videos about intercultural relations. Fusco is best known for her performance The Couple in the Cage (1993), in which she and artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña posed as Amerindians on display at various museums. The piece mocked the ethnographic treatment of indigenous people and served as a satirical commentary on the concurrent quincentenary celebrations of Columbus’s discovery of America. In a more recent work, A Room of One’s Own (2006), she explores military torture and gender, playing an interrogator training women recruits. Fusco is also a writer and Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design.La Plaza Vacia (video still), 2012; photo credit Coco Fusco
La Plaza Vacia (video still), 2012; photo credit Coco Fusco
New York, NY
Alex Rivera is a digital media artist and filmmaker whose work addresses Latino issues through the use of humor, satire, and metaphor. He has produced fake documentaries as well as narrative films and traditional documentaries, often with a focus on the absurdities of political realities. In The Sixth Section (2003), immigrants from the same Mexican village reconvene in the United States and use the Internet to attain political and economic power back in Mexico.
Alex Rivera on the set of Sleep Dealer, 2006; photo courtesy Jim Mendiola
New York, NY
Shen Wei studied Chinese opera and was a founding member of China’s first modern dance company. He danced and choreographed works all over Asia before moving to New York in 1995 on a scholarship from the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab. He founded Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2000 at the American Dance Festival. A painter, designer, and filmmaker, Shen Wei creates visually striking work with strong scenic elements. In his productions he fuses dance, theater, Chinese opera, painting, and sculpture in idiosyncratic and imaginative ways. Wei received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.
Rite of Spring, 2003; photo courtesy Bruce R. Feeley