Vito Acconci

The Red Tapes
1977

A monochrome image featuring a close-up of a person's face in profile, with a dramatic lightning bolt effect superimposed over the background, creating a stark contrast with the shadowed features of the face.
A monochrome image featuring a close-up of a person's face in profile, with a dramatic lightning bolt effect superimposed over the background, creating a stark contrast with the shadowed features of the face.

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Date
1977

Classification
Video

Medium
Video, black-and-white, sound, 141:27 min.

Accession number
2010.150

Edition
Uneditioned

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo in honor of Ron Clark

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
© Vito Acconci / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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