The Monga Show: prototyping Amerindian Perspectivism through the girl-to-gorilla trick

Authors

  • Tai Cossich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35522/eed.v26i3.736

Abstract

The Monga Show is the tropical version of the girl-to-gorilla trick, a sideshow act in which a beautiful lady mutates into an agitated gorilla, through an illusion technique called Pepper’s Ghost. This paper is a personal account of the process of building a mini Pepper’s Ghost illusion device, a prototype that emulates the Monga Show. Building this device led me to speculate on the possibility of it functioning as a model that prefigures Amerindian Perspectivism (Viveiros de Castro, 2004). The paper includes diagrams showing how the device works, and a brief discussion of the differences between the Pepper’s Ghost scene and the Monga Show act.

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Published

2019-02-22

How to Cite

The Monga Show: prototyping Amerindian Perspectivism through the girl-to-gorilla trick. (2019). Estudos Em Design, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.35522/eed.v26i3.736