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The Couple in the Cage, With Audio Description.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonial influence.
- Performance art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Third World Newsreel, 1993.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 13, 2025).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI.
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