Description

This book, edited by Diego Sileo and Giacomo Zaza analyses the most important contemporary Cuban artistic practices, providing a means to understanding the performative and subversive climate of a country that has survived and resisted for more than fifi ve decades between hostility and want and is now going through big changes.

Art has created, and continues to create, a noisy, many-voiced, ironic and critical, open and disruptive representation. CUBA. TATUARE LA STORIA [Tattooing history] means tracing a route that involves questions of race and identity, the heritage of cultural revolutions, evolutions and involutions.

A path that bears within it the primary stereotypes and needs, the popular roots and the religious rituals, the blending and bonding in the private and the social, the physical and the mental.

The book dwells on the symbolic potential of the imagination and on the multimedia and interdisciplinary side of Cuban art. It gives space to the voices that deconstruct the rhetorical structures of the institution and the powers, taking in experiences linked to video experimentation, photography and collective performance.