Twelve Pictures

1969

Not on view

After the house lights went down, Acconci crossed a darkened stage (from right to left) over the course of three minutes and periodically took flash photographs; the members of the audience did not realize that their jaded, uncomfortable, and giddy responses to his invisible transit were the substance of the work. Like contemporaries Dan Graham and Chris Burden, Acconci applied the systems and tasklike processes of Minimalism to real-time, body-oriented performances that blurred the lines between private and public, artist and audience. The artist Robert Smithson can be seen seated in the second row on the aisle.

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Title: Twelve Pictures
Artist: Vito Acconci (American, Bronx, New York 1940–2017 New York)
Date: 1969
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 11.1 x 12.1cm (4 3/8 x 4 3/4in.)
Frame: 22.9 × 184.2 cm (9 × 72 1/2 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1993
Object Number: 1993.375
Rights and Reproduction: © Vito Acconci
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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