Coco Haze is not a single person but a collective identity—an experiment in dissolving the boundaries of authorship. Always initiated by Deborah Read and Tracy Haze, Coco expands to include other artists, improvisers, and participants, depending on the installation or performance. Coco is porous, flexible, and alive.
At the center of this project is a question: Does an identity have to be personal or individual? By merging, overlapping, and sometimes contradicting voices, Coco Haze troubles the notion of ownership in art. Who speaks? Who authors? Who belongs to whom?
Each project unfolds as a collaboration, with the outcome never fixed in advance. The improvisational nature of Coco Haze invites the unexpected—the chance encounter, the unruly gesture, the collective mark. Rather than presenting a finished object, Coco Haze creates a living situation in which identity is shared, scattered, and remade.
In this sense, Coco Haze is less a name than a field of relations: an identity that belongs to everyone and no one, an ongoing practice of making and unmaking the self together
Project: CoCo Haze Wakes Up!
At Gallery RAG, Coco Haze and Joel Iwaskiewicz dissolve the line between artist and audience—inviting visitors into a vast poetic collage where improvisation, making, and collective joy become the art itself.
The work/installation pre-– event. This is the work of Coco Hayes exclusively. During the event people were encouraged to write/draw/paint on the wall as a graffiti/improvisational art event.
The other half of Coco, Tracy Haze
