Since the early 1990s, Tania Bruguera has produced a range of art works interrogating the media's role in the organisation of the Cuban Revolution. In 1993, she began publishing her own newspaper, Memoria de la postguerra (Memory of the Postwar). In 2009, for the Tenth Havana Biennial, she staged one minute of free speech. Both works produced intense public debate and government censure. Bruguera's interrogations of the ways in which the Cuban government has controlled information and banned freedom of expression since the revolutionary events of January 1959 pose a question that is now at the centre of much contemporary art and its criticism: what is the difference between representing politics and acting politically? If Bruguera's move is paradigmatic, it also, this essay argues, developed in the context of the Revolution's negotiation of artistic practice. Exploring Bruguera's practice in the context of a long history of the negotiation between art and politics in Cuba, 'Tania Bruguera: Between History' historicises Bruguera's practice, insisting that 'political acts' and calls for democracy are not the same everywhere.