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A guerrilla performance created by Coco Fusco, Juan Pablo Ballester
and Maria Elena Escalona, was presented at the 1997 ARCO Latino Art Fair.
Dressed in ski masks and Quechua knit hats, the three performers sold t-shirts
with the text below printed on them. The t-shirt text compares and contrasts
the price of Latin American art in Europe and the cost of selling it at
ARCO with the cost of surviving as an undocumented Latin American immigrant
in Spain. Over three days, the performers were removed several times by
ARCO security for not having paid for space to sell their wares; then they
were stopped from selling inside a booth, and finally were ejected for keeping
their faces covered. All the t-shirts printed were sold, and at least two
are now in museum collections. SUDACA is a derogatory term used in Spain
to refer to Latinos, meaning “dirty southerner”. |
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