Twilight: When I saw this movie Twilight LA, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I don't know how people could ever act like that. I don't like to watch / see things like that. I thought it was very sad what had happen to Rodney King, and to the other man who got pulled out of his truck and beat in the middle of the street. The way the people acted back then in 1992 is what gives them and LA a bad name. Since a Korean women shot an African American girl; I believe that is why 90% of their business's got destroyed. I liked how Anna Deavere Smith was able to act as different people. She transitioned the roles very well. I believe she is very talented.
A Savage Performance: Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco's "Couple in the Cage" performance occurred in 1992. They had decided to put the viewer back into the frame of discovery. They started their Guatinaui World Tour as a sardonic response to the celebrations of the quincentennial. Their plan was to live in a golden cage for three days. They performed sewing voodoo dolls, lifting weights, watching t.v, and working on a laptop. They took donations (one dollar), Fusco would dance to rap music, Guillermo would tell Armerindian stories in a nonsensical language. They would also pose for polaroids with visitors. Two "zoo guards" would be in their hands so they could communicate to the visitors since they couldn't understand them. The visitors would take them to the restroom on leashes, and they would feed them sandwiches and fruit. At the Whitney Museum in New York they added sex to their performance; adding a peek for $5 so people could see their genitals.
Multiculturalism and Epistemic Rupture: The vanishing Acts of Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Alfredo Vea Jr. Cultural diversity is an epistemological object- culture as an object of empirical knowledge- whereas cultural difference is the process of the enunciation of culture as "knowledgeable" authoritative, adequate to the construction of systems of cultural identification. If cultural diversity is a category of comparative ethics, aesthetics or ethnology, cultural difference is a progress of signification. (Location 34)
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