I ran out, in search of Rodney Graham's shipwrecked sailor, stranded on a tropical island with a parrot, who repeatedly gets concussed by a falling coconut in Graham's 1997
film loop Vexation Island.
Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings, with their implications of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording «I Am Sitting in a Room»; Erik Satie's
looped composition «
Vexations»; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance «Rhythm 0»; Adrian Piper's «Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City»; Herman Melville's short story «Bartleby, the Scrivener»; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary
film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage's paradigm - shifting 1952 composition «4» 33».»