film

The Couple in the Cage

User Rating	1 2 3 4 5 [rate this film]
Director(s)	Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia
Release Date	1993
Work In Progress	n
Runtime	30 min
Youth Media	n

Film Description

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 freakshows of the United States. In commemoration of this practice, videomaker Coco Fusco and 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.