Coco Fusco
The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
letterpress and intaglio on paper
tipografia e entalhe sobre papel
tipografia e entalhe sobre papel
29 x 37.5 cm (cada imagem)
11 3/8 x 14 3/4 in (each image)
46.5 x 53.8 cm (cada papel)
18 1/4 x 21 1/8 in (each paper)
11 3/8 x 14 3/4 in (each image)
46.5 x 53.8 cm (cada papel)
18 1/4 x 21 1/8 in (each paper)
2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of Fusco’s seminal collaborative performance work with Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West and its presentation in the legendary...
2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of Fusco’s seminal collaborative performance work with Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West and its presentation in the legendary 1993 Whitney Biennial. Fusco revisits this important work through a series of new engravings. Rendered in the style of Nineteenth-century caricatures, Fusco’s recollections of audience responses to the Amerindians performance weaves a humorous yet unsettling narrative, exposing the residue of colonial stereotypes in contemporary culture. While looking back, the new works underscore the long-lasting effects of colonialism that remain prevalent in the contemporary art world, in spite of broad cultural progress since the early-1990s platforms of institutional-critique and multiculturalism.