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Article: Coco Fusco at The Project.(NEW YORK)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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For an exhibition called "Buried Pig with Moros," Coco Fusco assembled various documents and artifacts pertaining to the treatment of Islamic insurgents, known as Moros and also as juramentados, who resisted the U.S. occupation of the Philippines in the early part of the 20th century. (Not cited by Fusco, though certainly part of the subject's current relevance, is the notorious use there of waterboarding.)
The exhibition gets its piquant title from another shamefully pertinent bit of abuse said to have occurred at the time. A letter of 1911 from General "Blackjack" Pershing to an unnamed colleague, printed on the wall, reads in part, "It has long been custom to bury ...
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Article: Coco Fusco at the Project.(New York)
Art in America;
November 1, 2004 ;
391 words
...Coco Fusco's Latest effort, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert...unionize workers. Originally performed by Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez at Helsinki's Kiasma...closed-circuit television. Viewers watch Fusco's drawn-out questioning and intermittent...
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