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MATCH CUTS PRESENTS: A COUPLE COCO FUSCOS
TUESDAY, MARCH 20th
ONE NIGHT ONLY 7:30 PM
Join Match Cuts and Spectacle Theater for two works by Coco Fusco.
POCHONOVELA: A CHICANO SOAP OPERA
dir. Coco Fusco, 1996.
USA, 27 min.
English.
POCHONOVELA is a bilingual, bicultural blend of Latin Americas and the United States most popular television genresthe telenovela and the sitcom, respectively. The humor and madness of life in East Los Angeles are captured here in performances by members of the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe, Chicano Secret Service, and other U.S. Latino actors. This provocative comedy touches on political, social, cultural, linguistic, and family issues attendent to the cross cultural life of Mexican Americans living near or on the borderboth psychologically and geographically. Music composed by the band Cholita.
THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE: GUATIANAUI ODYSSEY
dir. Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia, 1993.
USA, 31 min.
English.
In a series of 1992 performances, Coco Fusco and performance co-creator Guillermo Gómez-Peña decked themselves out in primitive costumes and appeared before the public as undiscovered AmerIndians locked in a golden cagean exercise in faux anthropology based on racist images of natives. Presented eight times in four different countries, these simple performances evoked various responses, the most startling being the huge numbers of people who didnt find the idea of natives locked in a cage objectionable. This provocative video, directed and produced by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, suggests that the primitive is nothing more than a construction of the West and uses comic fiction to address historical truths and tragedies.
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COCO FUSCO is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and the Andrew Banks Endowed Professor of Art at the University of Florida. She is a recipient of a 2014 Cintas Fellowship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), BAMs Next Wave Festival, the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Mercosul, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. Her works have also been shown at the Tate Liverpool, The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York.
MATCH CUTS is a weekly podcast centered on video, film and the moving image. Match Cuts Presents is dedicated to presenting de-colonialized cinema, LGBTQI films, Marxist diatribes, video art, dance films, sex films, and activist documentaries with a rotating cast of presenters from all spectrums of the performing and plastic arts and surrounding humanities. Match Cuts is hosted by Nick Faust and Kachine Moore.
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LocationSPECTACLE THEATER (View)
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
United States
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