Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.
Life and work
He attended Regis High School in New York City. He received a B.A. in literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 1962 and an M.F.A. in literature and poetry from the University of Iowa. Acconci began his career as a poet, editing 0 TO 9 with Bernadette Mayer in the late 1960s. In the late 1960s, Acconci transformed himself into a performance and video artist using his own body as a subject for photography, film, video, and performance. Most of his early work incorporated subversive social comment.
In the article "Video: the Aesthetics of Narcissism" (October, Vol. 1., Spring, 1976), pp. 50-64., Rosalind Krauss refers to aspects of Narcissism apparent in the video work of Acconci. A line of sight begin Acconci’s plane of vision ends on the eyes of his projected double. Krauss uses this description to underline aspects of narcissism in the Vito Acconci work "Centers" (1971). In the piece Acconci is filming himself pointing directly at himself for about 25 minutes, by doing so Acconci makes a nonsensical gesture that exemplifies the critical aspects of a work of art through the beginning of the 20th century. Krauss also goes on to explain the psychological basis behind the actions of video in comparison to discussions of object art.
External links
- [Vito Acconci at the Vito Acconci at MoMA]
- Acconci at Wikipedia
