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Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

In March 1992, writer/artist Coco Fusco and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña locked themselves in a cage and performed as “Amerindians,” wearing masks and converse sneakers, typing on laptops and making Vodou dolls. As the exhibit travelled from Irvine, CA to the Smithsonian in DC and London and Madrid, the artists blurred boundaries between subject and …

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