Theatre gains from representation a sense not available to mere art: A note on Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West Premiering in 1992 in Minneapolis and thereafter, until 1994, presented in Madrid, London and Washington Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, a performance by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, is theatre gaining from representation something which is not available to mere art. Coco Fusco reflects on the piece’s failure
by a circuitous root, oopsah! or Moral Image of Thought 2.0 Présentation de l’éditeur Il y a vingt ans, mon premier Manifeste pour la philosophie s’élevait contre l’annonce, partout répandue, de la ” fin ” de la philosophie. A cette problématique de la fin, je proposais de substituer le mot d’ordre : ” un pas de plus “. La situation a bien
the curious case of Augusto Boal: invisible police & visible normality I noticed that someone made a search for critics of Augusto Boal here, as if, it occurred to me, he doesn’t or wouldn’t have any. Of course he has had critics and written about them. He tells this story in “Invisible Theatre.” [Originally published 1990, trans. Susana Epstein,
This artist does that: Chinese Ash, American Flesh – Zhang Huan, 12m², Beijing, 1994 Tehching Hsieh made me think of Zhang Huan’s endurance performances, like the beautiful one in which he leaked blood suspended above an electric hotplate in a Chinese warehouse, the audience informally seated around the walls, the blood spitting in miniature eruptions like lava from