Remote control / Vito Acconci.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017, performer.

Contributor:

Dillon, Kathy, performer.

Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization), distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017--Exhibitions.

Acconci, Vito.

Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017.

Performance art--Exhibitions.

Performance art.

Video art--Exhibitions.

Video art.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Electronic Arts Intermix, [between 2000 and 2009?]

System Details:

DVD-R.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Vito Acconci and his subject Kathy Dillon are in two different rooms, in separate, confining boxes, able to see each other only via television monitors. Acconci wants to break down these barriers and to have his subject feel his presence and respond to his will as though the two are face to face. He tries to identify with her and be the one who is actually performing the commands he gives her, by remote control.

He keeps up a constant stream of repetitive, detailed, insistant instruction and comment despite the constraints both have of space, difficulty hearing one another, and distance from one another. She tries to ask questions or get clarification, and finally asserts her own will. Elements of suggestion, domination, the hypnotic, male-female confrontation. Each "channel" allows only one of the two participants to be heard clearly.

Contents:

[disc 1] Channel 1.

[disc 2] Channel 2.

Notes:

Originally produced in 1971.

Title from discs.

Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

259235615