The Siege of Tania Bruguera Is Lifted

The Siege of Tania Bruguera Is Lifted / 14ymedio
Posted on June 30, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 29 June 2015 — Last Friday, June 26th, a police
official paid a visit to Tania Bruguera to inform her that the charges
against her were being temporarily lifted. The artist refused to sign
the offer, and demanded that the charges be permanently lifted, without
any restrictions on her returning to her own country.

This information was made public by a message sent through the
#yotambienexijo ("I also demand") platform nearly six months after
Bruguera was detained while preparing to give a performance in Havana's
Plaza de la Revolución. At the time of her arrest on December 30th, the
authorities also confiscated her passport, without which she cannot
leave the country.

Bruguera decided to launch the Hannah Arendt Artivist Institute during
the Havana Biennial. For more than one hundred consecutive hours, she
led the reading, analysis, and discussion of Arendt's The Origins of
Totalitarianism. The event was ignored due to relentless police
pressure, a very noisy street repair right in front of the artist's
home, and the subsequent arrest of Bruguera and several companions.

In the text published last Monday on the #yotambienexijo platform, the
artist explained that the deal offered her "is unacceptable blackmail,
whose intention is to control my art and silence me as a citizen."
Meanwhile, she is suing the Cuban Ministries of Culture and of the
Interior for damages incurred during last December's events.

Links to #yotambienexijo sites:
Restaging of Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper 6 in Times Square in NYC
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Translated by José Badué

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