Interview Ahead of her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in Times Square, the artist and activist talks to Hyperallergic about free speech in times of rising authoritarianism. April 30, 2026 — 16 min read Tania Bruguera at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin in February 2024 (photo Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images) Editor’s Note: This interview was translated from Spanish by Valentina Di Liscia and is available at the end of this article. / Nota del editor:   La entrevista original en e s pañol se encuentra aquí . Tomorrow, May 1, on the occasion of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera will stage her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in the middle of Times Square in Manhattan. With a deceptively simple setup of a raised platform and a microphone, the work dates to the 2009 Havana Biennial, when Bruguera invited Cubans to exercise their right to free speech.…