by Ariel Nichols
Vito Acconci is a landscape architect, installation artist, and video/performance artist from New York. He has also done video art like the above, Theme Song. In this video, Acconci faces the camera and talks to the viewer intimately, at times using music he plays as cues. He is verbally documenting a turbulant relationship and his thoughts on these things, much like a modern day video blog. However, there is a tension in the way he speaks to the viewer, who he calls "you" which has always really unsettled me.
Vito Acconci is a landscape architect, installation artist, and video/performance artist from New York. He has also done video art like the above, Theme Song. In this video, Acconci faces the camera and talks to the viewer intimately, at times using music he plays as cues. He is verbally documenting a turbulant relationship and his thoughts on these things, much like a modern day video blog. However, there is a tension in the way he speaks to the viewer, who he calls "you" which has always really unsettled me.