Tania Bruguera
Subtitle: talking to power = hablándole al poder
By: curated and edited by Lucía Sanromán and Susie Kantor
Contributors: Sanromán, Lucia, curator, editor, writer of added commentary; Kantor, Susie, curator, editor, writer of added commentary; Phelan, Peggy, writer of added commentary; Kester, Grant H., writer of added commentary; Lacy, Suzanne, interviewer; Reed, Ivan Muñiz, writer of added commentary; Falconi, José Luis, writer of added commentary; Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo; Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780982678992
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: In art; Exhibitions; Politics in art; Interviews; Latin American Art; Social change; Artists; Control (Psychology) in art; Installations (Art); Performance art; Political activity; Cuban Art
Other titles: Talking to power; Hablándole al poder
Description: The work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) researches and performs the ways in which art can be applied to collective everyday life, focusing on the transformation of emotion into political action. Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder' surveys Bruguera's artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader a deep understanding of the artist's strategies for intervening in power. Richly illustrated and including rarely seen documentation of Bruguera's actions, this volume features texts by José Luis Falconi, Grant Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Peggy Phelan. Exhibition: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (16.06.-29.10.2017).
Notes: "This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Tania Bruguera : talking to power/hablándole al poder' at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (June 16-October 29, 2017), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (May 12-September 9, 2018), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (week of April 25, 2019-July 14, 2019)"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: CEO's foreword  -- Deborah Cullinan; title: Transitional institutions and the sort of political timing-specificity  -- Lucía Sanromán and Susie Kantor; title: Tania Bruguera : performance and the Hinterfragen  -- Peggy Phelan; title: Art after the fact : Tania Bruguera and the aesthetics of situation  -- Grant H. Kester; title: Tania Brugera and Suzanne Lacy in conversation --; title: Use the museum  -- Ivan Muñiz Reed; title: A lexicon interpreted  -- José Luis Falconi; title: The projects  -- Susie Kantor; title: Works in the exhibition.