Arts Events Inspired by Columbus Legacy
Performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena, recipient of a 1991 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and Coco Fusco will offer several free events at UC Irvine next month related to the legacy of Christopher Columbus.
March 2, 3 and 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they will be in a cage in the Fine Arts Gallery, re-enacting the old sideshow practice of displaying “primitives” in public. Portraying aborigines overlooked during the Spanish conquest, they will demand to be “discovered.” Visitors may feed them, speak to them and photograph them as a souvenir of the Quincentenary.
March 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m., outside their cage, they will perform “The Year of the White Bear: Take One,” a “mini guerrilla graffiti raid on the gallery” followed by a “ritual in honor of the evangelization of the Americas.”
Gomez-Pena is the founding member of the Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo of San Diego and Tijuana. Fusco is a writer, curator and media artist from New York. The two have been collaborating since 1989. Information: (714) 856-6610.
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