Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His performance and video art was characterized by "existential unease," exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression and provocation, as well as wit and audacity, and often involved crossing boundaries such as public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, and real world–art world. His work is considered to have influenced artists including Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, Bruce Nauman, and Tracey Emin, among others. Acconci was initially interested in radical poetry, creating 0 to 9 Magazine, but by the late 1960s he began creating Situationist-influenced performances in the street or for small audiences that explored the body and public space. Two of his most famous pieces were Following Piece (1969), in which he selected random passersby on New York City streets and followed them for as long as he was able, and Seedbed (1972), in which he claimed that he masturbated while under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery, as visitors walked above and heard him speaking. In the late-1970s, he turned to sculpture, architecture and design, greatly increasing the scale of his work, if not his art world profile. Over the next two decades he developed public artworks and parks, airport rest areas, artificial islands and other architectural projects that frequently embraced participation, change and playfulness. Notable works of this period include: Personal Island, designed for Zwolle, the Netherlands (1994); Walkways Through the Wall at the Wisconsin Center, in Milwaukee, WI (1998); and Murinsel, for Graz, Austria (2003). Retrospectives of Acconci's work have been organized by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1978) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1980), and his work is in numerous public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1980, 1983, 1993), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979), and American Academy in Rome (1986).[6] In addition to his art and design work, Acconci taught at many higher learning institutions. Acconci died on April 27, 2017, in Manhattan at age 77.

  • Title : Vito Acconci
  • Popularity : 0.542
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1940-01-24
  • Place of Birth : New York City, New York, USA
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  • 2006
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    You're Going to Die!

    You're Going to Die!

    1 2006 HD

    "You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts...

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  • 2008
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    Chelsea on the Rocks

    Chelsea on the Rocks

    5.7 2008 HD

    Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...

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  • 1999
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    Steven Holl: The Body in Space

    Steven Holl: The Body in Space

    1 1999 HD

    "Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of...

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  • 2016
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    Burden

    Burden

    5.9 2016 HD

    A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

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  • 1981
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    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    1 1981 HD

    With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...

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  • 1972
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    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    1 1972 HD

    “In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

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  • 1980
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    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    9 1980 HD

    An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

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  • 2013
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    Revenge of the Mekons

    Revenge of the Mekons

    7 2013 HD

    Documentary about the Mekons.

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  • 1972
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    Undertone

    Undertone

    1 1972 HD

    "In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl...

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  • 1971
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    Centers

    Centers

    1 1971 HD

    Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.

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  • 1971
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    Pryings

    Pryings

    1 1971 HD

    A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of...

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  • 1970
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    Digging Piece

    Digging Piece

    1 1970 HD

    Standing alone among beach dunes, Acconci begins to kick at the sand below him. Over the course of the film's ten minutes, this repeated action...

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  • 1970
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    Flour/Breath Piece

    Flour/Breath Piece

    1 1970 HD

    The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.

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  • 1970
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    Gargle/Spit Piece

    Gargle/Spit Piece

    1 1970 HD

    The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from...

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  • 1970
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    Two Takes

    Two Takes

    1 1970 HD

    Acconci oftens performs controlled actions as if he had entered into a contractual agreement to test his physical limitations. In Grass/Mouth,...

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  • 1971
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    Conversions 1

    Conversions 1

    1 1971 HD

    In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations.

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  • 1970
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    Three Adaptation Studies

    Three Adaptation Studies

    1 1970 HD

    Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him...

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  • 1971
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    Remote Control

    Remote Control

    1 1971 HD

    The two-channel piece Remote Control is an exercise in manipulation and control between artist and subject, male and female. On separate channels,...

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  • 1971
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    Association Area

    Association Area

    1 1971 HD

    This early performance tape is an example of what Acconci has termed his "quasi-ESP exercises," in which he explores mental concentration and...

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  • 1971
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    Claim Excerpts

    Claim Excerpts

    1 1971 HD

    A documentation of one of Acconci's most notorious performances, Claim Excerpts is a highly confrontational work, an exercise in self-induced,...

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  • 1974
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    My Word

    My Word

    1 1974 HD

    In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence....

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  • 1974
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    Turn-On

    Turn-On

    1 1974 HD

    The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to...

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  • 1973
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    Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Vito Acconci

    Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Vito Acconci

    1 1973 HD

    This early document is a videotaped interview ("videoview") of Vito Acconci by Willoughby Sharp during which they discuss Acconci's development as an...

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  • 1977
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    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

    1 1977 HD

    A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...

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  • 1981
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    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    1 1981 HD

    The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture,...

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  • 1991
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    The Golden Boat

    The Golden Boat

    6.1 1991 HD

    Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...

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  • 2009
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    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    1 2009 HD

    Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

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  • 1970
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    See Through

    See Through

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1972
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    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Undertone

    Undertone

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1973
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    Theme Song

    Theme Song

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1971
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    Centers

    Centers

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Centers

    Centers

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Centers

    Centers

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1970
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    Applications

    Applications

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Three Adaptation Studies

    Three Adaptation Studies

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1971
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    Pryings

    Pryings

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Two Track

    Two Track

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1974
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    Open Book

    Open Book

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1973
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    Face-Off

    Face-Off

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1972
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    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1971
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    Remote Control

    Remote Control

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Association Area

    Association Area

    1 1971 HD

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    Seven Easy Pieces

    Seven Easy Pieces

    2 2007 HD

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  • 1971
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    Claim Excerpts

    Claim Excerpts

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Conversions 1

    Conversions 1

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1974
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    My Word

    My Word

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    My Word

    My Word

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Turn-On

    Turn-On

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1969
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    Three Attention Studies

    Three Attention Studies

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1970
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    Digging Piece

    Digging Piece

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Flour/Breath Piece

    Flour/Breath Piece

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Gargle/Spit Piece

    Gargle/Spit Piece

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Two Takes

    Two Takes

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Openings

    Openings

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1974
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    Face of the Earth

    Face of the Earth

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Shoot

    Shoot

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1971
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    Breath In (To) / Out (Of)

    Breath In (To) / Out (Of)

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Watch

    Watch

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Waterways (Burst; Storage)

    Waterways (Burst; Storage)

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Training Ground

    Training Ground

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Directions

    Directions

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1972
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    Cross-Fronts

    Cross-Fronts

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Face to Face

    Face to Face

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Hand to Hand

    Hand to Hand

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Go Between

    Go Between

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Anchors

    Anchors

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1970
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    Break-Through

    Break-Through

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Filling Up Space

    Filling Up Space

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Three Frame Studies

    Three Frame Studies

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Two Cover Studies

    Two Cover Studies

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Concentration/Contemplation Piece

    Concentration/Contemplation Piece

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Lick

    Lick

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    Air Time

    Air Time

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    Corrections

    Corrections

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Rubbings

    Rubbings

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Run Off

    Run Off

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    Walk-Over

    Walk-Over

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Visions of a Disappearance

    Visions of a Disappearance

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Reception Room

    Reception Room

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Recording Studio From Air Time

    Recording Studio From Air Time

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    Three Relationship Studies

    Three Relationship Studies

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1971
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    Contacts

    Contacts

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Conversions 2

    Conversions 2

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Conversions 3

    Conversions 3

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1973
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    Command Performance

    Command Performance

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Full Circle

    Full Circle

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1970
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    Clouds

    Clouds

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Open-Close

    Open-Close

    1 1970 HD

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