FEATURED SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker Coco Fusco

Noted performance artist and author Coco Fusco has lectured, performed, exhibited, and curated programs throughout the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Her book English is Broken Here, was published by The New Press in 1995. Fusco is currently developing a new multimedia performance which addresses unexplained disappearances of maquiladora workers at the US-Mexico border entitled The Incredible Disappearing Woman. She is also editing an anthology for Routledge Press on Latin American performance. Her current performance, a collaboration with Nao Bustamante entitled STUFF, was commissioned by London's Institute for Contemporary Art and Highways in Los Angeles and will culminate its two year tour at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki in November. In addition, Fusco recently premiered her latest video installation, Access Denied (1998) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas. Fusco's writings have appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Nation, Ms., Frieze, Third Text, The Drama Review and Nka: Journal of African Art, as well as a number of anthologies. She is a regular contributor to Bomb Magazine and to National Public Radio's Latino USA, and is an advisor to Performance Research Journal.

Opening Address by June Wayne

Senefelder in Silicon Valley artist, writer and activist June Wayne has a career that spans more than sixty years. She has exhibited her paintings and prints throughout Europe and the Americas. A retrospective of her work organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art in New York is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from November 1998 through February 1999. Wayne's compelling art addresses an impressive range of issues from the personal and autobiographical to the social and political. Her 'Dorothy Series' from the 1970s is a lithographic homage to her mother. The more recent Knockout series combines images recalled from her Chicago childhood, portrayals of genetically altered mice and diagrams of atomic bomb technology.Wayne received international acclaim for founding the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, which effectively revitalized the fine art print in this country. Her opening address for the conference explores the impact of electronic technology on the static arts of painting and printmaking.