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Categories: Action
Keywords: Concept | Travel | Surveillance
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»
Works by Vito Acconci:
Step Piece Virtual Intelligence Mask Waterways: Four Saliva Studies
Vito Acconci
«Following Piece»
«Following Piece» is one of Acconci's early works. The underlying idea was to select a person from the passers-by who were by chance walking by and to follow the person until he or she disappeared into a private place where Acconci could not enter. The act of following could last a few minutes, if the person then got into a car, or four or five hours, if the person went to a cinema or restaurant. Acconci carried out this performance everyday for a month. And he typed up an account of each ‹pursuit›, sending it each time to a different member of the art community.
