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The couple in the cage : a Guatinaui odyssey / a video by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia ; directed & produced by Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia ; Authentic Documentary Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art.
- Indigenous peoples in art.
- Indigenous peoples--Exhibitions.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Museum attendance.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1993.
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Over the last five hundred years, non-western human beings have been exhibited in the taverns, theaters, gardens, museums, zoos, circuses, and world's fairs of Europe, and the circuses and freak shows of the United States. In commemoration of this practice, video maker Coco Fusco and performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena lived in a gilded cage in Columbus Plaza in Madrid for three days in May 1992. Presenting themselves as aboriginal inhabitants of an island in the Gulf of Mexico that was overlooked by Columbus, the video documents "authentic" and "traditional" tasks, including writing on a laptop computer, television, sewing voodoo dolls and working out.
- Participant:
- Featuring Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Coco Fusco.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 27, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1200165648
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