Join us for a conversation with interdisciplinary artist and scholar Coco Fusco, focusing on moments within her artistic practice in which urgent topicality led to a deeper consideration of agency. Topics of discussion include her approach to her works The Year of the White Bear (1992) at the Walker and Operation Atropos (2006) as well as her acute analysis of the economy of representation and reputation in Joe Scanlan’s Donelle Woolford project.
Fusco’s practice includes video, photography, and performance. In her video contribution to the exhibition Radical Presence, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004), the artist imagines and stages surveillance footage of the FBI search for Angela Davis, in which hundreds of black women were wrongly detained or arrested before Davis herself was brought to trial, then ultimately acquitted.