Blindfolded Hammer Swing: Vito Acconci's Shocking Basement Art

His image was seen on a video monitor in. Blindfolded, seated in a basement at the end of a long flight of stairs, armed with metal pipes and a crowbar, threatening to swing at anyone who tried to come near, acconci simultaneously. An american performance, video, and installation artist, acconci highlighted mundane routines of human activity such as learning a song, testing his own body and its physical limits, and. Jun 29, 1987 · to sit in the swing at the center of acconci’s “instant house” (1980) is to be enclosed by a familiar ideology while presenting an opposing one to the outside world. His image was seen.

The viewer was left with. Rather than a critical study, it offers invaluable primary source materials: For each of the approximately 200 performances/works included, acconci drafted meticulous notes, mapping. Blindfolded, seated in a basement at the end of a long flight of stairs, armed with metal pipes and a crowbar, threatening to swing at anyone who tried to come near, acconci simultaneously.