INSTALLATIONS
VITO ACCONCI
Vito Hannibal Acconci is an American
designer, landscape architect,
performance and installation
artist.Everything I did in art was
based on a hatred of art and a hatred of
museums, because it was the opposite
of everyday he said in 2008 looking
back on his more than 40 years of
work. He was a father of performance
as well as video art and deeply
influential force on the New York art
scene for years. He did things such as:
following people on the street,
masturbating while hidden in a
gallery ,disfigured his own body. Even
surrounded by a generation of artists
who were openly radical, he was an
unashamed outlier which made himself
look pathetic and menacing. Acconci
enacted uncomfortable forms of power
exchange, teasing out the ways in
which people dominate and control one
another. For Untitled Project for pier
17 he waited for visitors at the end of a
Manhattan pier at 1am in the morning,
from March 27 to April 24 in 1971. if
someone comes out to the pier to meet
me he explains, I confess to that
person something about me that hasnt
been revealed before- something that
I'm ashamed of and that under normal
circumstances I wouldnt tell a soul.
In exchange for keeping the secret,
the visitor can demand something
for me. The visitor can blackmail
me.Vito Acconci doesnt use a clear
narrative to express his work. In
my opinion this is an imaginative and
effective style of work because it allows
the viewers to decide how to interpret
his work and even decide if it has a
story or not.One critic said that the
work was sheer, outlandish audacity.
Comparing Doulas Gordons review
with Vito Acconci, it demonstrates that
the audience felt his work was exciting
and challenging.
DOUGLAS GORDON BILL VIOLA
Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist. He Bill Viola is a contemporary video
was born on the 20th September 1966 instillation artist whose artistic
in Glasgow, Scotland. He has won the expression majority depends on the
Turner Prize in 1996 and the Premio themes of fundamental human
experiences like birth, death and other
2000 award at the 47th Venice
aspects of consciousness. His artistic
Biennale for his works.is well known
expression depend upon electronic,
for his video art and photography. A lot
sound and image technology in New
of his work is viewed as being about
Media. He was born in 1951 in Queens,
memory and uses good repetition in
New York. He takes inspiration for his
various forms. Gordons work plays
works on his near- death experience
with traditional videos by
where on family vacation, he nearly
experimenting with times elements
drowned in a lake where he experience
and exploring multiple monitors. One of
to his description of ... the most
his best-known work would be 24 Hour
beautiful world Ive ever seen in my life
Psycho (1993) which slows down
and without fear and peaceful. Some
Alfred Hitchcocks Film Psycho, which
of his video art pieces include 'Reverse
He slowed, down to last twenty-four
Television', 'An Ocean without a Shore',
hours instead of its original length 109
'The Night Journey', 'Bodies of Light'
minutes. It is presented in a dark room
and 'The Tristan Project'. His main
with no other work around it. He did
technique to all of his video instillation
this so the full attention on this room
art is using the technique of slitting
was on the video. He also did in
screens with the use of projectors and
between darkness and light 1997,
screens to accomplish this
William Friedkins Exorcist 1973 and
technique.Like Vito Acconci, Bill viola
Henry Kings The Song of Bernadette
uses the non-narrative forms in his
1943. The video he makes from them
works. Non-narrative form explains
are projected on either side of a single
that the content of the video installation
free- standing semi-transparent screen
includes alternative, poetic, abstract,
so they can be seen at the same time.
metaphorical, surrealist, avant-garde,
He also did this with Otto Premingers
absurdist, anti-narrative, underground;
carnival etc. non-narrative
filmmaking is very artistic and
Whirlpool 1949 with one on the one on
the right reversed so that the two sides
mirror each other, Gordon separated
individual frames of the original film so
that odd-numbered ones on one side
alternate with even-numbered ones on
the other. Aoife Rosenmeyer says that
Douglas Gordons work lacked
narrative drive and investigative bite.
By this review implies that the
performance is dull and unimaginative.