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Coco Fusco
In this podcast, Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco talks about her origins and about a family ecosystem that was always part United States and part Cuba, leading her to take on the role of translator from a very young age. We also talk about about unstable, anti-essentialist identities and, among other things, we look back at the impact of one of her early performances: Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, created with Guillermo Gómez-Peña between 1992 and 1994.
OBJECTHOOD #9 keeps asking questions about the limits and borders of stuff all around us – from countries to nuclear sites. We talk to Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou about her work on exclusion zones and radioactive waste management, focusing on temporal and spatial thresholds. Our second guest, researcher and activist Nishat Awan, talks about unsettlement and geopolitical borders, especially in relation to Pakistan and her field work in Balochistan. Get ready for a deep dive into the oddness of boundaries, including political demarcations, the interplay between insects and radiation leaks, forced displacements, and gigantic triangles, to name but a few. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros