SEGMENT: Mary Reid Kelley in "History"
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Artist Mary Reid Kelley invites family members to perform with her in elaborate costumes and punning verse to create her new video "The Syphilis of Sisyphus" (2011) based upon her witty, feminist interpretation of aspects of the French Enlightenment.
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