In 1983, Paul McCarthy realised the performance Aryan Death Ship in which the artist assumed the authoritative figure of the captain of an ‘Aryan Ship of Death’. The performance viewers were expected to interact with and humour the grotesque antics of the captain, as though they were a crew subjected to his tyranny. Amplifying shipboard power relations and the violence associated with the figure of the sea captain, Aryan Death Ship is one of several of McCarthy’s performances dedicated to the subject of the ship and its occupants as the embodiment of a micro state and its un-civil society.
Paul McCarthy
Director
Ghost Ship60%
Triangle69%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea70%
The Last Voyage of the Demeter67%
Dead Sea62%
Triangle of Sadness70%
The Poseidon Adventure71%
Juggernaut62%
Voyage of the Damned60%
Mission to Mars60%
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea75%
Alien81%
The Black Hole58%
Under Siege63%
Star Trek: The Motion Picture64%
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou70%
Death on the Nile71%
Pandorum66%
Querelle66%
Star Trek: Generations65%
