Video

Operation Atropos

Coco Fusco

2006, 59:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 897.03

In July 2005, I took a course led by former US military interrogators designed for people in the private sector who want to learn their techniques for extracting information. I took a group of six women with me and filmed our workshop. The video is about our learning experience. The training involved an immersive simulation of being prisoners of war: we were ambushed, captured, stripped searched, thrown in the pen and subject to several interrogations. Afterwards, in a classroom scenario, the tactics used against us were analyzed and we were taught to do what had been done to us.

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Critical Writing

Operation Atropos
by Coco Fusco. Journal of Media Practice, 2010, v. 11, no. 1.
Gender, Power, and Pedagogy in Coco Fusco's Bare Life Study #1...
by Karen Beckman. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Spring 2009, v. 50, no. 1.
Performing the State of Exception: Coco Fusco's Operation Atropos...
by Jose Esteban Munoz. TDR: The Drama Review, 2008, v. 52, no. 1.