The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey
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Audio/Visual
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Category
Art Document
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Third World Newsreel, United States
Duration
30 min.
Subject
Performance art. Human beings -- Exhibitions. Indigenous peoples -- Exhibitions. Indigenous peoples in art. Social psychology. Social interaction. Traveling exhibitions. Museum attendance. Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. Fusco, Coco. Human beings. Indigenous p
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Abstract
Performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco travel and appear before the public in four different countries as two "Guatinaui Indians", members of a fictional "newly discovered" tribe who had agreed to be displayed at malls and museums around the world, after the manner of human exhibition in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These performances are Inter cut with archival footage of humans displayed in cages as freaks and curiosities. Conceived as a "satirical comment on the past", the performances evoke various responses, including huge numbers of people who are convinced they are real and do not find the idea of "natives" locked in a cage objectionable.
Description
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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1
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Great piece! An excellent video for teaching performance art, blurring the boundaries between art and everyday life, and for exploring constructions of the "other."
6 years ago