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A Performance Situation Using Walking, Running

Vito Acconci American
1969
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In 1969 Acconci moved from poetry to creating photographic works that used the medium to document "performance situations"-preconceived activities executed before a live audience or in private. In this piece he set himself the simple task of walking back and forth in front of the camera and recording his position at fixed intervals, a process close in spirit to the "task performances" of his contemporary the avant-garde choreographer Yvonne Rainer.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Performance Situation Using Walking, Running
  • Artist: Vito Acconci (American, Bronx, New York 1940–2017 New York)
  • Date: 1969
  • Medium: Gelatin silver prints
  • Dimensions: 16.5 x 24.1 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. ) each
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2001
  • Object Number: 2001.295a–d
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Vito Acconci/ Acconci Studio
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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