U.S. Cuban Performers
US-CUBAN PERFORMERS
The nature of cultural memory, exile and migration, gender and power, are also important for the work of US-Cuban performance artists Maritza Molina, Carmelita Tropicana (b. 1951, a.k.a. Alina Troyano), and Coco Fuscó (b. 1960).
Tropicana, whose work started in feminist and lesbian circles, traveled to Cuba in 1993.
Her parodical performance piece Milk of Amnesia shows the artist overcoming her cultural amnesia through the discovery of the collective nature of memory.
Fuscó’s performances, which recall Bruguera’s early work, focus on the female body as a spectacle conditioned by multiple histories. In 1997, outside of the Havana Biennial, she performed “The Last Wish” in the back of Tania Bruguera’s home/ gallery space.
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