Movies
- 1970
Run Off
Run Off01970HD
A ten minute super-8mm work from 1970 by Vito Acconci.
- 2007
Seven Easy Pieces
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For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own,...
- 1970
Open-Close
Open-Close01970HD
In this performance based tape, Acconci uses his body to explore notions of opening and closure.
- 1974
Shoot
Shoot01974HD
Acconci imitates the sounds of war, gunfire and explosion; he thrusts his face, stomach or penis onto the screen. His childlike battle sounds are...
- 1971
Centers
Centers01971HD
Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.
- 1970
Openings
Openings01970HD
Acconci's body-based performances are often willfully provocative in their testing of physical limits and controlled actions. Here, as the camera...
- 1971
Pryings
Pryings01971HD
A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of...
- 1971
Claim Excerpts
Claim Excerpts01971HD
A documentation of one of Acconci's most notorious performances, Claim Excerpts is a highly confrontational work, an exercise in self-induced,...
- 1971
Two Track
Two Track01971HD
In Two Track, Acconci experiments with direct and peripheral perception of information in the context of communication and interaction. He sits with...
- 1973
Command Performance
Command Performance01973HD
Torn over the pressure to perform for his audience, Acconci fantasizes about "a dancing bear" who takes his place, performing in the spotlight, doing...
- 1970
Lick
Lick01970HD
A five minute super-8mm short from Vito Acconci
- 1971
Association Area
Association Area01971HD
This early performance tape is an example of what Acconci has termed his "quasi-ESP exercises," in which he explores mental concentration and...
- 1971
Training Ground
Training Ground01971HD
A super-8mm document (blown up to 16mm) of Acconci's performance of the same name in which he covered almost the entirety of the gallery space with a...
- 1973
Walk-Over
Walk-Over01973HD
"A long narrow corridor, leading to the camera—at one side, a window—sun streams in, splotches of light and dark, the corridor shimmers....
- 1970
Clouds
Clouds01970HD
Vito Acconci
- 1971
Conversions 3
Conversions 301971HD
The final installment of the Conversions trilogy.
- 1973
Face-Off
Face-Off01973HD
Face-Off is an ironic collusion of private and public, of exposure and masking, a tense ritual wherein Acconci divulges and then censors his...
- 1974
Full Circle
Full Circle01974HD
"I walk in a circle around the camera: sometimes I'm on screen, sometimes I'm off, sometimes I change direction, leaving the screen on one side and...
- 1971
Directions
Directions01971HD
A super-8mm document (blown up to 16mm) of Acconci's performance of the same name where he laid flat on his stomach blindfolded on a wood platform in...
- 1971
Watch
Watch01971HD
Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.