Titles by Vito Acconci
- Applications
- Association Area
- Break-Through
- Breath In (To) / Out (Of)
- Centers
- Claim Excerpts
- Combination
- Command Performance
- Contacts
- Conversions
- Corrections
- Digging Piece
- Election Tape '84
- Eye-Control
- Face of the Earth
- Face to Face
- Face-Off
- Filler
- Filling Up Space
- Flour/Breath Piece
- Focal Point
- Full Circle
- Gargle/Spit Piece
- Hand to Hand
- Home Movies
- My Word
- Open Book
- Open-Close
- Openings
- Pick-up
- Pryings
- Pull
- Reception Room
- Recording Studio From Air Time
- Remote Control
- Rubbings
- Second Hand
- See Through
- Shoot
- Sounding Board
- Stages
- The Red Tapes
- Theme Song
- Three Adaptation Studies
- Three Attention Studies
- Three Frame Studies
- Three Relationship Studies
- Trappings
- Turn-On
- Two Cover Studies
- Two Takes
- Two Track
- Undertone
- Visions of a Disappearance
- Vito Acconci: Five Audio Works
- Walk-Over
- Watch
- Waterways: 4 Saliva Studies
- Zone
Titles with or about Vito Acconci
Claim Excerpts
A documentation of one of Acconci's most notorious performances, Claim Excerpts is a highly confrontational work, an exercise in self-induced, heightened behavioral states, and an aggressive psychological exploration of the artist/viewer relationship. During the three-hour performance, Acconci sat in the basement of 93 Grand Street in New York, blindfolded, armed with metal pipes and a crowbar. His image was seen on a video monitor in the upstairs gallery space. Staking claim to his territory, he tries to hypnotize himself through language into an obsessive state of possessiveness: "The talk should drive me into a state where everything is possible." He becomes increasingly tense and violent, threatening to kill anyone who tries to enter his space. Acconci has written, "If during the first hour, I had hit someone, I would have stopped, shocked, horrified; if, during the third hour, I had hit someone, I would have used that as a marker, a proof of success... a signal to keep hitting."
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