Fusco And Mona's Cage In A Cage Analysis

Fusco and Peña’s Couple in a Cage performance was moderately successful. Through their performance, they demonstrated the political and racist fashion of “othering” another culture and putting them on display as freaks. Specifically, in creating a cage for them to create a sideshow effect it’s focused on how putting an entertainment value on the idea of making the normal for other cultures, something bizarre. I believe they make this particularly effective by having the docents bring up that this is an “ongoing tradition” that was started by Christopher Columbus.
However, it failed in a sense that it didn’t invoke the alienation effect in enough people. Too many people did not understand the intended message of the piece. The positive