Vito Acconci "Antartica"

Poem by Vitto Acconci

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Vitto
• Acconci

[drcuddlebunny]

Thank you for posting this. This is fricking amazing. I think I like this better than "My flesh to your bare bones" which is this recording and another recording of an artist who was inspired by this. but it's more of a poetic rant more that anything.

[FrankiesLittleJoy]

first listening I fell asleep. woke up an hour later not even remembering being tired.

a bizarre and fantastic lull.

[projectsinexile]

the more I listen to it, the more I enjoy it.

particularly suitable to meditate about the end of life,

death as part of life, rather than separation from it.

I very often listen to this piece, rather than music, when I am working.

I love it.

[projectsinexile]

@seabeegeebee

'snow under feet voice'

I like this image/voice.

[projectsinexile]

@variablyposy

I do not know if it is 'surreal', now,( long after the surrealist movement), 'surreal' is a too vague term, that has lost its original meaning, Acconci could not have written this beautiful, extraordinary poem at the beginning of his artistic life: it is a meditation on a life lived to the extreme of all possibilities, a meditation as the end of that life nears, it is a meditation on an artistic practice that went to extreme limits.

[variablyposy]

it's like a surreal dream that's full of all this imagery about public and private worlds & selves. typical stuff from acconci... but always interesting

[mgalin1]

I Like how the image and words are independent of each other; how the focus on the words or image, the listening to the b.g., the colors move as Antarctica might be: blue, white, black, metallically shiny.