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Reenact Acconci's Following Piece

Figure 3. Vito Acconci, Following Piece, October 3-25, 1969. Various durations; performed for one month as part of the "Street Works IV" program organized by New York's Architectural League. Photo: Courtesy Exit Art.

«Following Piece» is one of Acconci's early works. The underlying idea was to select a person from the passers-by who were by chance walking by and to follow the person until he or she disappeared into a private place where Acconci could not enter. The act of following could last a few minutes, if the person then got into a car, or four or five hours, if the person went to a cinema or restaurant. Acconci carried out this performance everyday for a month. And he typed up an account of each ‹pursuit›, sending it each time to a different member of the art community. From http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/following-piece/