Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Heredia, Paula, director, producer.
Fusco, Coco, director, producer, performer.
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, performer.
Authentic Documentary Productions, production company.
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed August 27, 2020).
Available to current Bryant University faculty, staff and students.
Guatinaui performance, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Coco Fusco ; film editor, Daisy Wright.
Featuring Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Coco Fusco.
In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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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.
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