Craig Dworkin, ed., Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci.(Book review)

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, July, 2006 by Watson, Petra Rigby

Craig Dworkin, ed., Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: MIT Press, 2005, 428 pp., ill. b. & w.

A few years back, when I heard Vito Acconci give a lecture addressing his recent interests in public space, art and architecture, I felt he was a poet. Not because I gained from the talk a small fragment of information on his early work with language, rather, because there was something innately poetic in the resonance of presentation and choice of words, an approach suggestive of the same spatial and psychosomatic involvement that is so vitally central to Acconci's celebrated performance and video work. The most recent publication--from the "MIT Press Writing Art Series"--rectifies such circumstances where...

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