Coco Fusco | Unerasable Memories

Artist comments on her Bare Life Study #1 performance, a denunciation of the US military’s treatment of its political prisoners

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Ayrson Heráclito | Unerasable Memories

The artist discusses the enslavement of black people brought from Africa to Brazil in his Barrueco, created in partnership with Danillo Barata

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Octavio Zaya | Unerasable Memories

The Spanish curator comments on Letter To My Father (Standing By the Fence), by Colombia’s Carlos Motta, about the September 11 attacks

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Sebastián Diaz Morales | Unerasable Memories

The artist discusses Lucharemos Hasta Anular la Ley, a piece that blends reality and fiction to get to the essence of popular demonstrations

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Exergie - Butter Dance, by Melati Suryodarmo | 15th Festival

Belief in the physical body as a mirror to inner universes is what drives the performance by Indonesia’s Melati Suryodarmo, a member of the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramovic

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Bare Life Study #1, by Coco Fusco | 15th Festival

“I want to prompt reflection on the state of exception that has become a part of political life.” In her Bare Life performance, Coco Fusco coordinates 50 volunteers for an urban intervention on the streets of São Paulo

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