Maria Fusco

Maria Fusco
Born	1972 Belfast, Northern Ireland

Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer, lecturer, art critic, and events organiser.^[1] She was Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London between 2007-2013 and is presently Chancellor's Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.^[2] Her book of short stories The Mechanical Copula was published by Sternberg Press in 2010.^[3] Co-edited with Richard Birkett, Fusco's Cosey Complex, is the first major publication to discuss and theorise Cosey Fanni Tutti as methodology (published by Koenig Books in 2012).^[4]

Maria Fusco was Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2009/10, where she organised and hosted the one-day event 'Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing',^[5] and the inaugural Critic-in-Residence at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris (2008/09).^[6] Fusco has contributed to Art Monthly, Frieze,^[7] Fillip,^[8] and Mousse,^[9] (as well as many other publications).^[10]

In 2008, Fusco launched The Happy Hypocrite (Book Works: London), a semi-annual journal for and about experimental art writing, of which she was editor between 2008-2010, and remains as the journal's Editorial Director.^[11]

Maria Fusco is currently writing Sailor, a novel about a monkey and a Browning Hi-Power pistol.^[12][13] Her screenplay for GONDA, a film by film-maker Ursula Mayer based around Ayn Rand's 1934 play Ideal, premiered in April 2012, commissioned by Film London.^[14] Fusco is the author of "The Legend of the Necessary Dreamer" (Vanguard Editions: London, 2017);^[15] a book of fictions that take place in Lisbon in an abandoned palace once owned by the Marquês de Pombal, who instituted the grid plan on which Lisbon was rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake;^[16] and "With A Bao A Qu reading When Attitudes Become Form" (Vancouver/Los Angeles: Fillip, 2013).

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