Today in Cultural Anthropology we talked about how western societies created this idea that their (our) culture is superior to the so called "barbaric indigenous peoples". In 1993, two traveling performers, Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco, dressed in foreign clothes go to art museum to art museum acting as thought they are newly discovered savages off the coast of Mexico. This was meant as a Satirical art performance directed by Paula Heredia and Coco Fusco. It was shocking to see that some of the audience members actually responded as if they were actually from this island off the coast of Mexico and they were really being held captive for display. I thought this relative to our recent project in the sense of criticism of an idea. This art piece was meant as criticism to this western idea that we are superior to other countries and people that do not live the way we do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX2Lk2tdcw
I could not find the actual video but this is a clip that gives a little more a visual then I talked about.
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