The other day while I was driving I was thinking about my blog, and my project for this class. I was thinking about pirates and all of a sudden I remembered a video I saw in my Late 20th Century Art History class with Shep Steiner. The piece, entitled Vexation Island, was created by Rodney Graham and depicts a pirate stranded on an island, stuck in a Sisyphean situation in which he continuously passes out from being knocked on the head with a coconut. The footage is beautiful and is meant to be looped. I was able to find it online (isn't the internet awesome?). Instead of trying to write about what the piece means, this ArtForum article would be more interesting than my interpretations - it even has a shout-out to my favorite art history professor Shep!
Rodney Graham - "Vexation Island"
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I suppose this has relevance to the class because it sets up an interesting "tableaux" for the pirate to exist in.
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