Operation Atropos
Film and lecture Coco Fusco: Monday, November 5, 6:30 PM

Max Kade Theater


 

Operation Atropos documents the experiences of artist and writer Coco Fusco and six other women enrolled in an interrogation training course entitled Prisoner of War Interrogation Resistance Program. Run by former members of the United States Intelligence, the program consists of a physically and emotionally grueling, four-day immersion course that teaches techniques of physical and mental “persuasion”. The film examines how assuming the role of the interrogator affects the women in the course.

 

Coco Fusco is an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Her performances and videos have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003).

Max Kade Theater is located in Armstrong Hall on the Colorado College campus.  Call 719-389-6000 for directions.