Thursday, February 14, 2008
Week 3 - Feb. 11th (Reading)
After reading about (and witnessing in class a representation) Acconci's "Step Piece," my main thoughts/questions (like probably anyone/everyone that has witnessed this) was; is this art? I see a man stepping up and down on a stool. How is this art? What is the purpose trying to be demonstrated by this exercise? While I'm not entirely sure (as if anyone is) I think it can be art. I think if Acconci wants it to be art, then it is art. Acconci is putting hard work (well work) into this demonstration and attributes of the performance can be analyzed into the broader spectrum of things. For instance, I could view this demonstration as a metaphor for human struggle in everyday life. Every day humans continually do the same redundant things over and over again. We get up in the morning and follow a routine. Stepping up and down is like a comment on the human ritualistic redundancies that we continually do. That's how I viewed it anyways, but it can be argued otherwise. Which I'm sure will have its own validity.
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Your read on Acconci's Step Piece is quite interesting. I like how you think of it as a metaphor for human struggle, and although us as viewer's are not physically doing the activity, we can still feel that weight. Perhaps, he is asking us to try it? Allowing us a space for enlightenment- so many wondrous things happen in the process of making art.
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