Blakula Rising (A), 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
48.5 x 120.5 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
In 1972 the American blaxploitation horror film Blacula recast the supervillain Dracula as a Black American vampire sent by the elders of the Abani African nation to supress the slave trade. Deacon takes the joke a step further, recasting Dracula yet again, this time as Blakula, the Aboriginal version of the lovable antihero. Deacon subverts the parody film, adding joke on top of joke.
