From the Fundraising Edition series I Was In The Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun

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The duration of the film is 3:04.

Dr. Li Wenliang was the first to sound the alarm about the escalation of what became known as COVID-19. Before his eventual death, he told the magazine Caixin: “I think a healthy society should not only have one kind of voice.” Wenliang’s statement is uttered in various languages in Coco Fusco’s video A Censured Prescription. A murmur of a crowd is constructed out of voices from different locations, recorded while in quarantine. Voices belong to Fia Backstrom, Chang Yuchen, Coco Fusco, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Chitra Ganesh, Emily Jacir, Paolo Javier, Tammy Nguyen, among many others, including Dr. Jane Kim of Brooklyn’s Kings County Emergency Room.

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Basel Unlimited, Frieze Special Projects, the Whitney Biennial (2008 and 1993), BAM’s Next Wave Festival, as well as biennials in Liverpool, Shanghai, Sydney, Kwangju. Her videos are in the permanent collections of The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou and the Imperial War Museum. Fusco is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995). She is a recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and US Artists fellowships, as well as a Rabkin Prize and an Absolut Art Award for art writing. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York and is a professor at The Cooper Union School of Art.