Monday, June 22, 2009
Sisyphus on Vacation (land art project, photography, video)
2006. Land art project, photographic documentation. 50 x 70 inches. Video documentary 3 min 39 sec. Movie-Link
Sisyphus On Vacation is the product of a two-week artist-in-residency in the Austrian Alps in which I carried painted gray stones totaling 692 pounds to the top of a mountain. The project imitates the old Greek figure of a blinded Sisyphus in his futile attempt to roll a boulder uphill that would only roll back down just before reaching the summit – again and again. Part of the project was to persuade 20 fellow hikers successfully to help schlepping the stones.
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