From September 14 to January 24, 2024, KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin will present Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, the first major retrospective of the School of Art’s Professor Coco Fusco.

For more than three decades, Fusco, who joined The Cooper Union faculty in 2019, has been a key voice in discourses on racial representation, feminism, postcolonial theory, and institutional critique. The exhibition traces the profound influence that Fusco’s work has had on contemporary art discourses in the Americas and Europe and features a broad selection of her videos, photography, texts, installations, and live performances from the 1990s to the present day.

Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island shows the breadth of Fusco’s multidisciplinary artistic practice in which she explores the ways that intercultural dynamics affect the construction of the self and ideas about cultural otherness. Informed by multicultural and postcolonial discourses as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she has developed projects about ethnographic displays, animal psychology, sex tourism in the Caribbean, labor conditions in free trade zones, suppressed colonial records of Indigenous struggles, and the military interrogation techniques used in the war on terror. Her more recent work focuses on the relationship between poetry and revolutionary politics in Cuba.

Parallel to the exhibition at KW, an extensive, eponymous monograph of Fusco’s work has been published by Thames & Hudson with contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Anna Gritz, Jill Lane, Antonio José Ponte, and the artist herself.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is also presenting a series of public programs about Fusco’s work. In addition to these talks, partly organized together with ICI Berlin, KW commissioned Fusco to create the new multimedia performance Antigone Is Not Available Right Now, which is staged in collaboration with Sophiensæle in early December 2023.