"Just a question" was created during the last election campaign in the United States, one where the first African American candidate was racing for a real possibility to be elected president. The ghost of white supremacists, of political violence, and of ideological extremism reappeared and increased during the last days of the race in an open matter that shocked the public view. These visceral reactions confronted the image of a country that preaches itself as the land of opportunity. A week before and a week after the election, this piece was presented in the aim of portraying the contradictions and the elements that generated such reactions. For the first version, the piece was located in the street and the passing audience was invited to sit and answer the question: "this campaign season has been wrought with political hatred; how do we ensure that political violence doesn't lead to physical violence?". For the second version, the piece was located inside a building where an African American guard, veteran of two wars, randomly picked audience members to follow him to a room where some images of violent acts generated by racism were projected on the wall while he was asking the person: "As you know there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of assassinating Barak Obama. What do you think generates such feelings?." For the third installment of this piece, the same set up will prevail but the question will be: "As we have seen in the news, some extremists have appeared at events where the president of the United States is talking with guns and other means for physical violence. Why do you think people see the death of a leader as an option for implementing their ideas?".

Tania Bruguera is an interdisciplinary artist working on political issues primarily through behavior art, performance, installation and video. She has been a participant in Documenta, Performa, three Venice, two Gwangju and three Havana Biennales. Her work has also been exhibited at major museums in Europe and the United States including Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, PS1, the ZKM, IVAM, Kunsthalle Wien and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is part of the collection of Tate Modern; Museum für Moderne Kunst; Daros Foundation; Museum of Modern Art; Museo del Barrio; Bronx Museum; IVAM; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam. In 1998 she was selected as a Guggenheim fellow, in 2008 she received the Prince Claus Prize and in 2009 she was the first recipient of the Neuberger Prize.

Bruguera was featured in “Art and Today”, “ART NOW Vol. 2”, "Fresh Cream", "Performance Live Art Since 1960's”, and “Art Tomorrow”. She has been written about in The New York Times, Le Monde, Artforum, Flash Art, Art Nexus, Beaux Arts, Performance Research, and Kunstforum, among others.

She received her MFAs from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (United States) and Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba).

She currently lives and works between Chicago, Paris and Havana. She is the founder / director of Arte de Conducta, the first performance studies program in Latin America, hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and is a visiting faculty member at Ecole des Beaux‐Arts, Paris and an Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago, United States.