- Sin Título (Habana, 2000) / Untitled (Havana, 2000)2000Performance and video: milled sugar cane, black and white monitor, Cubans, DVD disc, DVD player13 ⅛ × 39 ⅜ × 164 feet
Photo: Casey Stoll
© Tania Bruguera
- Sin Título (Habana, 2000) / Untitled (Havana, 2000)2000Performance and video: milled sugar cane, black and white monitor, Cubans, DVD disc, DVD player13 ⅛ × 39 ⅜ × 164 feet
Photo: Casey Stoll
© Tania Bruguera
- Sin Título (Kassel 2002) / Untitled (Kassel 2002)2002Performance and video installation: Germans, guns, black outfits, wood scaffolding, 40–750 watt light beams, DVD disc, DVD player, projector19 × 59 ⅗ × 13 feetCollection Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Photo: Sebastian Isacu
© Tania Bruguera
- Sin Título (Kassel 2002) / Untitled (Kassel 2002)2002Performance and video installation: Germans, guns, black outfits, wood scaffolding, 40–750 watt light beams, DVD disc, DVD player, projector19 × 59 ⅗ × 13 feetCollection Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Photo: Sebastian Isacu
© Tania Bruguera
- Poetic Justice2002–03Teabags, fabric, thread, canvas, wood, LCD screen, DVD, 1 minute continuous loopdimensions variable
Installation view: 8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
© Tania Bruguera
- Cátedra Arte De Conducta / Center for Behavior Art Studies2002–09Creation of a research center in Havana, Cuba; collaboration with Cuban and international artists and art institutions to study the relationship between the performative arts and politics and its implementation in society
Pictured: Workshop with Anri Sala
Photo: Cátedra Arte De Conducta
© Tania Bruguera
- Cátedra Arte De Conducta / Center for Behavior Art Studies2002–09Creation of a research center in Havana, Cuba; collaboration with Cuban and international artists and art institutions to study the relationship between the performative arts and politics and its implementation in society
Pictured: Workshop with Thomas Hirschhorn
Photo: Cátedra Arte De Conducta
© Tania Bruguera
- Memoria de la Postguerra III / Memory of the Postwar IIIdetails2003Editing a newspapers without name, date or news; political slogans used by the Cuban Revolution, reproduction of the posters used to advertise revolutionary slogans
Red ink, black ink, newsprint11 ⅕ × 16 inchesPhotos: Tania Bruguera
© Tania Bruguera
- Memoria de la Postguerra III / Memory of the Postwar IIIdetails2003Editing a newspapers without name, date or news; political slogans used by the Cuban Revolution, reproduction of the posters used to advertise revolutionary slogans
Red ink, black ink, newsprint11 ⅕ × 16 inchesPhotos: Tania Bruguera
© Tania Bruguera
- Autobiografia - Versión Dentro de Cuba / Autobiography - Version inside Cuba2003Space painted white, two Soviet speakers from the 1970s, egg cartons, wood stage, sixteen subwoofers, one disconnected microphone, three unfinished sheet rock walls, one electric bulb65 ⅗ × 49 ⅕ × 16 ⅖ inches
Installation view: Museo Nacional de Belles Artes, Havana, Cuba
Photo: Ricardo G. Elias
© Tania Bruguera
- Verantwortung Fur's Shicksal / Responsible for the Fate2004Site-specific participatory sound installation: booth, button to activate sound and recording, recording of the audience's opinions, computer, sound equipment, two loudspeakers, recording of the final statements by the Nazi officers on trial, hall used for the Auschwitz trial "4Ks 2/63 Ffm," Germans, survivors of the Holocaust and their relativesdimensions variable
Photo: Fritz Bauer Institute
© Tania Bruguera
- Verantwortung Fur's Shicksal / Responsible for the Fate2004Site-specific participatory sound installation: booth, button to activate sound and recording, recording of the audience's opinions, computer, sound equipment, two loudspeakers, recording of the final statements by the Nazi officers on trial, hall used for the Auschwitz trial "4Ks 2/63 Ffm," Germans, survivors of the Holocaust and their relativesdimensions variable
Photo: Fritz Bauer Institute
© Tania Bruguera
- Portraits2004–05Sound installation and performance: space painted white, historical speeches translated into applauses, recorded applauses, white speakers, white text in the wall with the historical information on the speeches, security guards with dogs randomly walking into the spacedimensions variable
Installation view: Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Photo: Rüdiger Ettl
© Tania Bruguera
- Portraits2004–05Sound installation and performance: space painted white, historical speeches translated into applauses, recorded applauses, white speakers, white text in the wall with the historical information on the speeches, security guards with dogs randomly walking into the spacedimensions variable
Installation view: Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Photo: Rüdiger Ettl
© Tania Bruguera
- Trust Workshop2007Use of psychology techniques: Ex-KGB agent, street photographers, eagles, monkeys, photographic paper, printer, ink, photo of Felix Dzerzhinsky4 × 3 × 2 meters
Performance view: 2nd Moscow Bienale, Moscow, Russia
Photo: 2nd Moscow Bienale
© Tania Bruguera
- Trust Workshop2007Use of psychology techniques: Ex-KGB agent, street photographers, eagles, monkeys, photographic paper, printer, ink, photo of Felix Dzerzhinsky4 × 3 × 2 meters
Performance view: 2nd Moscow Bienale, Moscow, Russia
Photo: 2nd Moscow Bienale
© Tania Bruguera
- Tatlin's Whisper #52008Decontextualization of an action: mounted police, crowd control techniques, audiencedimensions variable
Performance view: UBS Openings: Live The Living Currency, Tate Modern, London, UK
Photo: Sheila Burnett
© Tania Bruguera
- Tatlin's Whisper #52008Decontextualization of an action: mounted police, crowd control techniques, audiencedimensions variable
Performance view: UBS Openings: Live The Living Currency, Tate Modern, London, UK
Photo: Sheila Burnett
© Tania Bruguera
- Tatlin's Whisper #52008Decontextualization of an action: mounted police, crowd control techniques, audiencedimensions variable
Performance view: The 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Dogodek / The Event, The Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011
Photo: Jaka Babnik
© Tania Bruguera
- Tatlin's Whisper #52008Decontextualization of an action: mounted police, crowd control techniques, audiencedimensions variable
Performance view: The 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Dogodek / The Event, The Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011
Photo: Jaka Babnik
© Tania Bruguera
- El susurro de Tatlin #6 (Versión La Habana) / Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (Havana version)2009Decontextualization of an action: stage, podium, microphones, one loudspeaker inside and one loudspeaker outside of the building, two persons dressed in military outfits, white dove, one minute free of censorship per speaker, 200 disposable cameras with flashdimensions variable
Performance view: Tenth Havana Biennial, Central Patio of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
Video documentation of performance: HD video; 40 minutes 30 seconds; Edition of 5 (+ 1 AP)© Tania Bruguera
- El susurro de Tatlin #6 (Versión La Habana) / Tatlin’s Whisper # 6 (Havana version)2009Decontextualization of an action: stage, podium, microphones, one loudspeaker inside and one loudspeaker outside of the building, two persons dressed in military outfits, white dove, one minute free of censorship per speaker, 200 disposable cameras with flashdimensions variable
Performance view: Tenth Havana Biennial, Central Patio of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
Video documentation of performance: HD video; 40 minutes 30 seconds; Edition of 5 (+ 1 AP)© Tania Bruguera
- Autosabotage / Self-sabotage2009Performance: public conference, table, chairs, microphone, sound system, gun caliber 38 / 9mm, 9mm bullets
Photo: Cesar Delgado Wixen
© Tania Bruguera
- Autosabotage / Self-sabotage2009Performance: public conference, table, chairs, microphone, sound system, gun caliber 38 / 9mm, 9mm bullets
Photo: Cesar Delgado Wixen
© Tania Bruguera