Coco Fusco

Jan 20, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Coco Fusco

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In the days after the 2024 election, I got my fill of mea culpas from disheartened Democrats and fatalistic “what else can we expect from politics?” dismissals from people around me.

Jan 15, 2025 | havanatimes.org | Coco Fusco |Circles Robinson

Cuban musicians are hitting the wrong notes with those in power. Music’s political power has a lot to do with why it is targeted by the state. By Coco Fusco  HAVANA TIMES – PATRIA Y VIDA (Homeland and Life), the battle cry of the July 2021 mass protests in Cuba and the winner of two Latin Grammys, brought international attention to the political power of Cuban music.

Nov 14, 2024 | almendron.com | Anne Enright |Astra Taylor |Coco Fusco |Michael Greenberg

Astra TaylorOn election night, before Harris’s loss set in, some exit polls showed that “democracy” was a top concern for voters. Many liberals took the result as an auspicious sign. But what is democracy? That was the title of a documentary I made during the 2016 presidential campaign. As I conducted dozens of interviews across the United States over many months, I learned that there was hardly a consensus over the word’s meaning.

Nov 13, 2024 | nybooks.com | Anne Enright |Thomas Powers |Verlyn Klinkenborg |Coco Fusco

Astra Taylor • Michael Greenberg • Coco Fusco • Verlyn Klinkenborg • Thomas Powers • Anne Enright* On election night, before Harris’s loss set in, some exit polls showed that “democracy” was a top concern for voters. Many liberals took the result as an auspicious sign. But what is democracy? That was the title of a documentary I made during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Oct 31, 2024 | nybooks.com | Coco Fusco

The man who fixed my roof stopped by the other day to see if he could charm me into giving him more work. He’s a jovial fellow in his sixties, with a bustling family business, who, judging by his name and fair complexion, is probably of Scottish origin. I was trying to figure out whether what he was telling me about my cornices was true when he suddenly started ranting about migrants. He was convinced that they were being lured by tales on social media of a carefree life in America.