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[Susan Douglas <sdouglas@uoguelph.ca>]

TONGOLELE@aol.com wrote:

> Coco Fusco
> THE BODIES THAT WERE NOT OURS- AND OTHER WRITINGS-
> Published by Routledge- in association with inIVA
>
> CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE
> The book launch will now take place at the Victoria Miro Gallery at 18.30 on
> Thursday 25 October 2001
>
> Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's
> leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. The Bodies That
> Were Not Ours- gathers Fusco’s finest writings since 1995, and includes
> critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe.
>
> Engaging and provocative, this collection of essays, interviews, performance
> scripts and foto novelas takes the reader on a tour of our current
> multicultural landscape. Fusco explores such issues as Frantz Fanon's
> theorization of metropolitan blackness, sex tourism in Cuba as a barometer of
> the island's entry into the global economy, and artistic and net activist
> responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace.
>
> Fusco, whose previous publications include English is Broken Here (New Press,
> 1995) and Corpus Delecti (Routledge, 1999) interviews such postcolonial
> personae as Isaac Julien, Hilton Als and Tracey Moffatt. Approaching the
> dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries
> and sociological inquiries collapse boundaries, forming a sustained
> meditation on how the forces of globalisation impact upon the making of art.
>
> LAUNCH EVENT
> Coco Fusco reads extracts from The Bodies That Were Not Ours-, and will be
> appearing in conversation with writer and film-maker John Akomfrah.
> 25.10.01 at 18.30; Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road (off City Rd), London
> N1 7RW
> Nearest Tubes: Old Street and Angel
> This event is free, but places will be allocated on a first come, first
> served basis.
>
> PUBLISHING INFORMATION
>
> The Bodies That Were Not Ours- And Other Writings-
> Published: October 2001
> 246x174mm: 284pp: illus. 30 b+w photos and 12 page colour insert-
> Hardback: £55.00, ISBN: 0-415-25173-7. Paperback: £14.99-, ISBN: 0-415-25174-5
> To order your copy please call the customer hotline: +44 (0)20 8700 768 853
>
> For further information, please contact Natasha Anderson or Stuart Croft
> on +44 (0)20 7729 9616  or email: institute@iniva.org
>

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