Tania Bruguera

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This Cultural Life · Tania Bruguera · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

There are certain things that are triggers that you carry with you.

Well, I know it's a repressive system, but I always try to talk to the person in front of me.

You try to bring the humanity on them.

Sometimes it doesn't work.

But, for example, in one of the interrogation sessions, I have many different interrogations, but I have a main one.

And she was at some point reciting by heart the Wikipedia biography of Tatlin.

And I was laughing inside me because I said, oh, you had to learn from Wikipedia in order to interrogate me.

Because you need to understand my work in order to accuse me of doing something wrong.

So this is why I created this piece about reading Hannah Arendt.

I did this performance for 100 hours of reading the work Origin of Totalitarianism.

And it was in a way my response to that and understanding that she will have to read that book in order to interrogate me later.

And hopefully she learned something out of it.

No.

Yes, absolutely.

I was forced.

I was blackmailed.

And to be honest, the reason I decided to leave is because they tried so much to convince me to leave Cuba.

that I knew I had that as a bargaining chip.

So I say, I leave only if you liberate these artists.

And I gave them a list of like, I don't know, 20 people or something who are in prison.

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