Vito Acconci

Project Partner:
National Sculpture Factory

Contact:
www.corkcaucus.org
www.nationalsculpturefactory.com

Screenings
Date: 18 March 2005
Venue: Caucus Centre, Evergreen Street

Lecture and Interview with JanVerwoert
Date: 19 March 2005
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Project Description:
Vito Acconci is one of the most significant artists to have emerged in the twentieth century. He was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1940 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Acconci is recognised for his daring and revolutionary contribution to the course of late twentieth century art. A key pioneer of performance and video art in the late 1960s, Acconci has continued to work in new and unexpected media, blurring disciplines from performance, sculpture and installation to architecture - the primary focus of his current practice. All of his work involves an investigation into the boundary between the body and public space, often with an implied social message or addressing significant social issues. Most recently he has worked collaboratively on a number of commissions with Acconci Studios, which explore architectural space.

“I think of art as having a kind of instrumental use. The word exists; the category exists, so it does have a place. When I make art, I don’t mean art as a kind of self enclosed art, but I mean art as this kind of instrument in the world.” Vito Acconci