Join Cuban American artist and writer Coco Fusco as she discusses the creation of her 2021 video work “Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word,” on view at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum. Dr. Fusco shot footage of the waters around Hart Island, which is home to the largest mass grave in the United States and where New York’s unclaimed victims of COVID-19 have been buried. The film evolved from research that she conducted about the history of artistic representation of plagues and other epidemics of infectious diseases.
This talk is the first major program co-sponsored by Cornell’s Public History Initiative and the Johnson Museum, highlighting how artists explore themes of history, memory, and the archive through their work.
