Monday, July 12, 2010


As I was constructing my presentation for class, I came across how Vito Acconci would observe people and follow them throughout the day. "Following Piece" is one of Acconci's early work. The idea was to pick a person who would walk by and follow the person until he or she would hit a private place where Vito could not enter. He did this performance everyday for a month and would send each 'pursuit' to a member of the art community. I feel like Vito did the following piece as a way of crossing the line of how society keeps to themselves and where it is uncomfortable, but in a public space. The art piece could have been made on how people would occupy the public space given to the everyday person, and he took it far enough as to step into the persons step and almost disappear.

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