Endurance Art in NYC
I’m not sure I can say that I’m a fan of Vito Acconci. I’d like to be, because I know I’ve tried to be at different times in my life, but they usually have gone terribly wrong, and I decide not to like him again for awhile. He’s one of the great visionaries living in New York, to be sure, and I have nothing but respect for someone who can attempt what he did and be able to move forward into new things. Every time I’ve tried to follow in his footsteps, it’s gone wrong, which seems to be part of his big plan.
If I had a better video camera, it might help. I could be sitting in a chair in my top hotel in New York, and speaking to the camera as if the camera were you, and start confessing things, and then breaking into song. I could also run in a thousand other directions with my words, and make confusing statements, and then things would be funny at the very end when everyone realizes I’m not going to say anything funny at all, but only make you think about watching me, and how that in itself is funny because it is not. I could tell stories about my leg, and then everyone would be uncomfortable, but the truth is, I need a better camera.
Or a worse one. Vito Acconci had a nice camera for the time, but to match his look, you’d need an old one, or maybe a super 8 even. And he had a certain way with people, and it’s one that I just don’t have. I tried the thing he did with following strangers around, and I ended up in a long relationship with someone I didn’t even like, just because I decided I had to be nice. It was awful, and I felt bad, and even guilty, and that seemed to be what he knows, too. I may have learned from all of this, then. Even though I think it would be great to become an architect, and start designing lots of things, and talk about how we need to rethink things. I could be someone who encourages people to rethink things, but then again, I’m not so sure.
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