The Couple in the Cage Trailer TWN
Over the last five hundred years, nonwestern 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 GomezPena 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 Col
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