Can the Subaltern write? Lecture by Coco Fusco
Thirty-five years ago, Gayatri Spivak published the historic essay Can the Subaltern Speak?, in which she maintained that post-colonial discourse in the West effectively erased the voice of subaltern women as individuals, instead fetishising their collective identity and positioning western intellectuals as the only possible interpreters of that collective condition. In the world of contemporary art, a similar pattern persists in which artists can only attain visibility by representing collectivity and can only gain legitimacy by gaining the approval of establishment experts. Here, Coco Fusco will analyse how creating one’s own critical and reflective interventions as a public intellectual can alter these entrenched power dynamics.
Lecture by the writer and interdisciplinary artist, Coco Fusco.
The activity is held in the MACBA Meier Auditorium, but you can also follow it live on the museum’s website and YouTube channel.
The Independent Studies Programme (PEI) is a learning tool that aims to share and disseminate part of its content via the PEI Obert programme and the La Colonie nomade project, as well as through the occasional offer of places in certain academic courses.
Participant
Coco Fusco
Registration can also be done at the museum, before the start of the activity, and is subject to the availability of spaces. If you have any question, feel free to contact us on 93 481 79 05 or by email at pei [at] macba [dot] cat
