I'm excited to receive my copy of Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, the first career monograph of the great Coco Fusco, after nearly three years of work. Published by Thames & Hudson and edited by Olga Viso, it accompanies an exhibition on view through January 7, 2024, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. I'm incredibly grateful to Olga for inviting me to be part of it: I served as production editor, a role that meant initial edits of all texts (including essays by Jill Lane, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Antonio José Ponte, and others); running logistics between gallery, artist, and publisher; recommending designer Mark el-Khatib; and reviewing all proofs. It's an important and timely volume, and I learned so much, about Coco and book publishing, along the way. Get a copy if you can!

It’s my third professional engagement with Coco: I edited her 2016 Walker Reader essay, “Taste as a Political Matter,” on her first encounter with (and the lasting impact of) the Guerrilla Girls, and in 2015, I interviewed her in the Walker Art Center green room as a special effects artist transformed her into the chimpanzee psychologist from Planet of the Apes before her lecture-demonstration Observations of Predation in Humans, A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologist. Along the way, I got a photo (by Gene Pittman) with the good doctor, along with then curator Misa Jeffereis.

Update 12/14/23: Both Hyperallergic and the New York Times have included Fusco’s monograph among the year’s best art books. In the Times, Holland Cotter writes that this “visually captivating book documents the politics and the poetry, both sharp, of an important career very much in progress.”