Coco Fusco
And Then the Sea Will Talk to You, 2012
Single-channel video installation (color, sound): 45 min., 12. sec, black box, rubber inner
Edition of 3
MW.CFU.030
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On an island where there is no jungle, the jungle is the sea Reinaldo Arenas And the Sea Will Talk to You invites audience into the physical and emotional experience...
On an island where there is no jungle, the jungle is the sea
Reinaldo Arenas
And the Sea Will Talk to You invites audience into the physical and emotional experience of journeying from Cuba by sea. Participants relinquish their worldly possessions (handbags, money, phones, watches, etc.) before entering a darkened theater. Traditional seating is replaced by the inner tubes that serve as sea crafts for Cuban rafters. The video combines images of the Caribbean Sea and skies with poetic and testimonial commentary on the sea.
Reinaldo Arenas
And the Sea Will Talk to You invites audience into the physical and emotional experience of journeying from Cuba by sea. Participants relinquish their worldly possessions (handbags, money, phones, watches, etc.) before entering a darkened theater. Traditional seating is replaced by the inner tubes that serve as sea crafts for Cuban rafters. The video combines images of the Caribbean Sea and skies with poetic and testimonial commentary on the sea.
Exhibitions
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, USA 2012Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, England, 2015
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA, 2016
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C, USA, 2024