Archive and performance: reflections on two undiscovered amerindians in Buenos Aires, by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peñ
In the following paper, we propose a review and analysis of the Malba exhibition Two undiscovered Amerindians in Buenos Aires by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. This exhibition was held virtually in 2020 as part of the program called History as Rumor. The purpose of the program is to recover di...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2021
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| Sumario: | In the following paper, we propose a review and analysis of the Malba exhibition Two undiscovered Amerindians in Buenos Aires by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. This exhibition was held virtually in 2020 as part of the program called History as Rumor. The purpose of the program is to recover different iconic performances of Latin America and the Caribbean from records (in photos, videos, or texts), testimonies, and comments of the different participants and assistants of the artistic work. Within this framework, they recovered and mounted an exhibition of one paradigmatic performance, also known as “The couple in the cage”. This action sought to present itself as a critical response to the celebratory context of the so-called “discovery of America”. For the following analysis, we pay special attention to the mounting procedure proposed by the Malba exhibition, which seeks to contrast the work of Fusco and Gómez-Peña with our own history of colonialism and human zoos. Although this work is part of a larger Ph.D. project, in this instance we focus especially on the analysis of some of the materials presented in the exhibition, but at the same time, we draw on a broader archive that brings together essays, interviews with the artists and audiovisual records of the work. Our research aims to answer what readings of the work can be deployed today in the Argentine context and how it intervenes in the order of the archive linked to dominant imaginaries and narratives of the nation.
Keywords: archive; nation; colonialism; performance. |
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