Tuesday 12th July 2022, 12:00pm

Session 248: “A Savage Performance” by Diana Taylor

For this lunch session, Brit Barton selected the essay “A Savage Performance: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco’s ‘Couple in the Cage'” by Diana Taylor (MIT Press, 1998).

“A Savage Performance” details the 1992 international contemporary art performance by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña titled, “Couple in the Cage” in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island.

Session location: Reseda Zürich am Hauptbahnhof

Participants: 4