Coco Fusco is an “interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. She is a recipient of a 2023 Free Speech Defender Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship” among many other accolades and her “performances and videos have been presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, and 1993), and several other international exhibitions.” Fusco's work explores race, gender, identify and power through various mediums from film to interactive installations ranging from discussions on Cuban exile, to colonialism, to female oppression across Latin America.