The “Couple in the Cage” was an exhibition called “A Savage Performance” curated by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. The exhibition was presented in several European countries and in some states in the United States. In the video, we see Coco and Guillermo in a cage. They carry them into the cage. The public feeds them through the cage and takes photos with them. In the trailer we also see interviews with the audience. The video also juxtaposes old exhibition footage alongside this exhibition. Both characters are dressed in a stereotypical manner. There are the two characters because they decided to put on a show. The exhibit isn't real and the tribe they told the audience they were from isn't real. This trailer is part of a longer documentary, which gives more details about the cities they visited and feedback from the viewing public. The theories I will employ in this analysis are ethnography, showing the other with reference to Sara Baartman and the politics of the exhibition. Professor LaFleur in a lecture on November 11 mentioned: “Museums have been extremely powerful in shaping the way people saw the world” (Lecture 007). This same reasoning is why Fusco and Pena embark on this ethnographic journey. By displaying “A Savage Performance,” we see that they are disrupting past notions of ethnography. Ethnographic museums like those in which Sara Baartman was exhibited served a purpose and created a certain type of discourse. “Discourses do not simply reflect reality, nor do they innocently designate objects; rather, they constitute them in specific contexts according to particular power relations” (Lidchi, p. 185). Lidchi goes on to say that ethnography was created by the dominant culture in the imperial center...... middle of paper ......friendly changes because first Coco Fusco and Guilermo Gomez-Pena se are exposed. No outside force controlled them, they were responsible for all the stories told to the public. We notice in the video that the camera is mainly turned towards the audience throughout the clip. This shows that the audience is the “subject” of the film. While spectators think the specimens are on display, they are the ones being observed. We observe their behavior throughout the documentary. We, the viewers, are watching them. The power is in the hands of the “natives”, unlike ethnography and exposed bodies in the past. In conclusion, “A Couple in a Cage” is a return to the ethnographic fairs and museums of the past that were used to degrade the natives of the past. pass. Finally, watching this video today calls into question the treatment suffered by indigenous people in the past..