Tania Bruguera

Artist and Activist

Cuba

For over 25 years, Tania Bruguera has been creating socially-engaged performances and installations that examine the nature of political power structures and their effect on the lives of citizens. Her research focuses on ways in which art can be applied to the everyday political life, i.e. on the transformation of social effect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects are intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. Her works often expose the social effects of political forces and present global issues of power, migration, censorship and repression through participatory works that turn “viewers” into “citizens.”