Seedbed is a performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci on 15-29 january 1971 at Sonnabend Gallery in New York. This article is about Performance art. ... Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Leo Castelli (born Leo Krauss on September 4, 1907, at Trieste, of Italian and Austro-Hungarian Jewish origin, – died August 21, 1999) was one of the most successful and influential art dealers of the 20th century. ... This article is about the state. ...
A low wooden ramp merging with the floor - it extends across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp installed at the Sonnabend Gallery, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery.[1]
Marina Abramovic performed Seedbed as part of her Seven Easy Pieces in 2005. Marina Abramović (born 1st November 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a renowned performance artist. ... Abramović performing Bruce Naumans Body Pressure. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
Guggenheim Press Release on "Seven Easy Pieces" - Nov.9-15, 2005
Interview New York Times - Provocateur: Marina Abramovic
Theresa Smalec, “Not What It Seems: The Politics of Re-Performing Vito Acconci's Seedbed,” PMC: Postmodern Culture 17 (1) 2006 [1]
References
^ "Vito Acconci - Kunstmuseum Luzern", Kunstmuseum Luzern, May, 1978.
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