• Artists
• Exhibitions
• Advising
• News / Events
• Gallery

Coco Fusco (b. 1960) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. Her work combines electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large-scale projections and closed-circuit television to live streaming performances on the internet that invite audiences to chart her course of action through online discussion. Fusco’s most recent work identifies and examines the role of women interrogators in the War on Terror.

Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).

Fusco's performances and videos have been included in two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennial, the Kwangju Biennale, the Shanghai Biennale, InSite 05, Transmediale, the London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. Her work was recently featured in Afro-Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool (2010) and Self as Disappearance at the Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme in France (2010).

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985) and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007). The artist is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Currently, Fusco is developing a new performance piece that explores the “Black Codes” established after slavery in the Americas for the 2010 World Congress of the International Drama/Theatre Education Association in Brazil.