Öffentliche Führung: 'Coco Fusco – Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island'

Every Saturday and Sunday, experienced art educators guide visitors through the current exhibitions at KW. The guided tours take place every weekend in German and English. Only one of the parallel exhibitions is visited at a time as part of a guided tour, so the guided tours change every week.

We recommend arriving in good time, as the number of participants is limited. In cooperation with the Museumsdienst Berlin. Admission is free of charge as part of Museumssonntag Berlin.

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Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island is the first major retrospective of the Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco (* 1960, USA). For more than three decades, she has been an authoritative voice in discourses on the representation of race, feminism, postcolonial theory and institutional critique. The exhibition traces the profound influence that Fusco's work has had on contemporary art discourses in the Americas and Europe. To this end, it presents a comprehensive selection of videos, photographs, texts, installations and live performances by the artist from the 1990s to the present day.

In her multidisciplinary artistic work, Fusco explores how intercultural dynamics influence the construction of the self and notions of cultural otherness. In her works, she draws on multicultural and postcolonial discourses as well as feminist and psychoanalytical theories. Her investigation of intercultural dynamics has resulted in artistic projects on ethnographic exhibitions, animal psychology, sex tourism in the Caribbean, working conditions in free trade zones, suppressed colonial documents on indigenous struggles and military interrogation methods in the war on terror.

In her more recent works, she deals with the relationship between poetry and revolutionary politics in Cuba. The structure of the exhibition is roughly based on these various interconnected themes. In this respect, Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island shows the breadth of Fusco's artistic work, which is of great importance in view of the political and cultural debates currently taking place not only in Germany.

Parallel to the exhibition, KW is devoting a diverse accompanying program to Fusco's complex and multidisciplinary work as an author, activist and performer. In addition to a series of talks, some of which will be organized together with the ICI Berlin, a performance of Fusco's new multimedia performance Antigone Is Not Available Right Now , commissioned by KW, will take place in early December 2023 in collaboration with Sophiensælen.

To coincide with the exhibition at KW, a comprehensive monograph of the same name on Fusco's work will be published by Thames & Hudson with contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Anna Gritz, Jill Lane, Antonio José Ponte and the artist herself.

Co-curators: Anna Gritz, Léon Kruijswijk
Assistant curator: Linda Franken