brain brawn: vito acconci fan club

I saw Vito Acconci speak at the University College London for The Bartlett School of Planning; after all these years, I can never tire of such an exhilarating experience. The lectures have morphed into what the performances use to be: physical concrete poetry, rhythmic and lyrical, moving and jarring. With repetition and bodily swaying, his spoken words have sculptural presence. And Acconci is hilarious in his deadpan celebration of abject failure. Though I wasn’t name-checked for previous commissions and facilitations, I was grateful to be in the presence of such old school brain brawn.