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When Doves Cry

Tania Bruguera’s Untimely Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Candice Amich
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Abstract

Through bold political performance acts, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera accesses an untimely variant of utopia whose surplus exceeds Cold War binaries of revolution and exile. Bruguera’s democratic action works build collective self-esteem and challenge the official utopianism of the communist state. In free-speech performances that confront the Cuban state’s censorship apparatus, Bruguera models for her fellow Cuban citizens an inimitable practice of democratic dissensus.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 27 - 44
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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