Hackathons, maker spaces, R&D labs: these terms are common to the world of technology, but have only recently seeped into museums.
Podcast: Coco Fusco, “Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba”
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. She is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
Coco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
Theresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
Podcast and liveblog: Coco Fusco, “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
Artist and writer Coco Fusco on the critical responses to the Planet of the Apes films — and as critiques of American race relations.
Podcast: Jesper Juul, “The Pain of Playing Video Games”
Jesper Juul, author of The Art of Failure, asks: “Why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?”
Podcast, Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
