| Description | The exhibitions were : Sunil Gupta, 'From here to eternity'; and Ajamu, 'Anti/bodies : a spectacle of strangeness'.
Ajamu later became known as Ajamu X.
Press release mentions circus and side show performers; the Ron G. Becker Collection; Goliath, Cyclops; the Walt Disney film 'Snow White and the seven dwarves' (1937); homosexuality; and HIV and AIDS.
Brochure includes texts by Emmanuel Cooper and Dylan Joshua Potter. The texts additionally mention people of Asian and African origin; Europe; the indigenous peoples of North America; Britain; the Christian religion; Pocahontas; the Caribbean; Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel 'Uncle Tom's cabin' (1852); Steven Spielberg's film 'E.T. the extra terrestrial' (1982); 'The Jerry Springer show'; and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
The brochure is illustrated by Gupta's 'Chicago' and 'The Hoist'; and Ajamu's 'Auto-portrait as armless and legless wonder' and 'Nadine Cockburn, the bearded girl, at the age of 13, Huddersfield'. |