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Step Piece (Steps: Stepping-Off Place), film stills from performance.
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Title
Step
Piece
(Steps
:
Stepping-Off
Place)
,
film
stills
from
performance
.
Creator
Acconci, Vito (American performance and video artist, born 1940)
Date
1970
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Contemporary
Theme
Performance art
Body art
Film stills
Video art
Video recordings
Motion pictures (visual works)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Men (male humans)
Artists
Performance artists
Video artists
Filmmakers
Profiles (figures)
Performances (entertainment events)
Motion
Step stools
Stools (seating furniture)
Seating furniture
Furniture
Legs (furniture components)
Words
Text (layout feature)
Instructions (document genre)
Subject
Performance art
Film stills
Video recording
Motion pictures
Motion study photographs
Men
Artists
Performances
Locomotion
Human locomotion
Stools
Seating furniture
Furniture
Description
Activity/performance
,
Acconci
Studios
,
New
York
: "
STEP
PIECE
(STEPS
:
STEPPING-OFF
PLACE)
/
Apartment
6B
,
102
Christopher
Street
,
New
York
City
/
1970
/
Activity/Performance
/
4
months
(February
,
April
,
July
,
November)
;
varying
times
each
day
/
An
18-inch
stool
is
set
up
in
my
apartment
and
used
as a
step
.
/
Each
morning
,
during
the
designated
months
,
I
step
up
and
down
the
stool
at the
rate
of
30
steps
a
minute
.
Each
day
,
I
step
up
and
down
until
I
can't
go
on and
I'm
forced
to
stop
.
/
Improvement
, and the
ability
to
sustain
improvement
,
is
put
to the
test
:
after
the
first
month's
activity
,
there's
a
one-month
lay-off
, then a
two-month
lay-off
, then a
three-month
lay-off
.
/
(Announcements
are
sent
out
,
inviting
the
public
to
come
see
the
activity
, in
my
apartment
, any
day
during
the
designated
months
. At the
end
of
each
month's
activity
, a
progress-report
is
sent
out
to the
public.)
"
(Acconci's
description
of the
activity/performance
, as
reproduced
in
Hopkins
,
p.192)
People Pictured
Acconci, Vito, 1940-
Location Depicted
New York (N.Y.)
New York (State)
United States
Technique
Filmmaking
Work Type
Performance art
Body art
Film stills
Motion pictures
Video art
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.192, fig.99)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-01.jpg
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