Critical Writing Index

Culture in a Cage

by Donald Garfield

Museum News, Mar. Spring 1993, p. 17

In The Year of the White Bear Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena perform in a cage dressed up as recently discovered inhabitants of the island of Guatinau.

The Year of the White Bear references the World Fair's Columbian Exposition in Chicago where so-called 'exotic' people were displayed as living dioramas to the locals.

ITEM 1993.095 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Year of the White BearGuillermo Gomez-Pena

The Year of the White BearCoco Fusco