Tania Bruguera

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377 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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This Cultural Life · Tania Bruguera · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And he said, this is art, because the kid was hearing people say this is art, whatever.

I could see he was kind of like in shock, like, oh, they didn't prepare me for this answer.

And he said, OK, continue.

And then I realized that if I wanted to do political work, I needed to talk to people in politics.

It was very funny because the censor came before the opening of the show.

And the piece was dark because the idea is that you don't see nothing.

The floor is very uneven.

You have this fear of darkness.

And then you see this light at the end, like the salvation or something.

And then the sensor come and the sensor is like, I know your tricks, Tania.

Put the lights on.

I want to see everything.

I said, OK.

I put it up.

So it meant nothing.

It's sugar cane and a TV.

They didn't put electricity on time, just a few minutes before the opening, so the censor could not see the video.

And the performers were not there, so only saw the sugar cane.

So yes, there are ways to go around censorship, but as soon as it happened, they closed it.

And I was saved by other artists, actually, because the Biennial had a lot of international artists, and the electricity of my piece...

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