Vito AcconciStany Zjednoczone, 1940–2017Seedbed
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Gdzie jest teraz „Seedbed”? Kolekcja: Museum of Modern Art, Nowy Jork. Obecnie poza wystawą. Sprawdzono 27 października 2026.
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Seedbed is a performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci on 15–29 January 1972 at Sonnabend Gallery in New York City.
In the piece, there is a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extends across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor.
In his original performance of the piece, Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp installed at the Sonnabend Gallery, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery.
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In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he masturbated eight hours a day while whispering out his sexual fantasies. Not only does the architectural intervention presage much of his subsequent work, but all of Acconci's fixations converge in this, the spiritual sphincter of his art. In Seedbed, Acconci is the producer and the receiver of the work's pleasure. He is simultaneously public and private, making marks yet leaving little behind, and demonstrating ultra-awareness of his viewer while being in a semi-trance state.
A video of the piece shows Acconci masturbating.
Marina Abramović performed Seedbed as part of her Seven Easy Pieces in 2005. In 2013, Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked Seedbed the 22nd best work of performance art in history.
Szczegóły
- Numer inwentarzowy
- 191.2007
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- Museum of Modern Art
- Zdjęcie: Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Z życia: Vito Acconci
Cały życiorys1971
The first critical article about him, in Arts Magazine
Cindy Nemser becomes the first art critic to write about Acconci, for Arts Magazine; her later interview with him becomes the magazine's cover piece.
30 czerwca 1972 – 8 października 1972
Exhibition: Documenta 5
mid-1970s
Audio/visual installations
In the mid-1970s Acconci expands his practice into the world of audio/visual installations.
