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Guillermo Gómez Peña and Coco Fusco: : The Year Of The White Bear
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The Year of the White Bear was a multi-faceted project that involved four distinct components and explored ways in which the mythical discovery of the Americas has been presented through five hundred years of history. It utilized fine art, popular art, mass media, and other art forms as expressive and metaphorical tools to reinvent mythologies, weave fictions, and levy cultural critique. Employing their own experimental archaeology Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco reviewed how these materials expressed, either overtly or covertly, the perspectives of indigenous American peoples, Europeans, and immigrant Americans. In doing so, Gómez-Peña and Fusco restored a complexity to the cultural dialogue that was quickly diminishing, as “multiculturalism” became commodified.
Participating Artists
Guillermo Gómez Peña & Coco Fusco
Curator
Guillermo Gómez Peña & Coco Fusco
Organizing Institution
Walker Arts Center, MN
Displayed at
West Wing Gallery