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DIGGING PIECE
Vito Acconci, 1970, 10 min, color, silent, Super 8 film on video. Courtesy EAI
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 displaces sand at a steady rate: as the artist sinks lower into the hole he creates, the mound of sand before him grows in correspondence.
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- Digging Piece, by Vito Acconci 1970, 10 min, color, silent, Super 8 film on video. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) (image/jpeg, 20.4 KB)