The couple in the cage : a Guatinaui odyssey /

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 performanc...

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Other Authors:	Heredia, Paula (Director, Producer), Fusco, Coco (Director, Producer, Performer), Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (Performer)
Format:	Video
Language:	English Spanish
Language Notes:	In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Published:	New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1993.
Series:	Academic Video Online
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples > Public opinion. First contact (Anthropology) > Exhibitions. Curiosities and wonders > Exhibitions. Performance art. Indigenous peoples in art. Indigenous peoples > Exhibitions. Museum attendance. Autochtones dans l'art. Musées > Fréquentation. Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Expositions. Curiosités et merveilles > Expositions. Manœuvre artistique. Documentaries and Factual Films Webcast documentary film. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Internet videos. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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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.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed August 27, 2020).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 streaming video file (32 minutes)) : sound, color with black & white sequences
Playing Time:	00:31:16
Production Credits:	Guatinaui performance, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Coco Fusco ; film editor, Daisy Wright.