ABSTRACT

The following interview resumes a discussion with Rudy Gerson joined by poet Kyle Carrero Lopez. Between memories of shared strain and tongue-in-cheek exchange, they narrate moments from rehearsal through performance in Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana, 2000) restaged at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018. Their account particularly addresses the institutional capacities at the time to deal with their intense and unexpected racialized experiences performing the piece.