Vito Acconci
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Plaça dels Angels, 1
January 29–May 9, 2004
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
June 1–September 1, 2004
Curated by Corinne Diserens
It’s well known that the artist Vito Acconci was active in the mid-’60s as the poet Vito Hannibal Acconci, but until now not much has been made of his move from the page to the gallery and beyond. This exhibition aims to show how his poetry, in which the page was treated as a field of action with words as props, led to the performative occupation of real space—physical, psychological, and architectural. The curator has gathered close to fifty works for this purpose: film, video, and installations from the late ’60s to the late ’70s, as well as his complete audio works and three new films on the early years of his studio. The catalogue includes a selection of Acconci’s poetry and an interview by Thurston Moore.