Vito Acconci
Digging Piece, by Vito Acconci. 1970, 10 min, color, silent, Super 8 film on video. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
The influential, provocative and often radical art-making practices of Vito Acconci have evolved from writing through conceptual art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and architecture. In the 1970s, he produced a remarkable body of conceptual, performance-based film and video works, in which he engages in an intensive psychodramatic dialogue between artist and viewer, body and self, public and private, subject and object.
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