October 13, 2004

Famed Artist Vito Acconci to Discuss Artworks
at Rose-Hulman Visual Arts Lecture on Tuesday

Influential and provocative artist, architect and poet Vito Acconci will share insight into his creative works during a visual arts lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Hatfield Hall Theater.

Artist, architect and poet Vito Acconci will share insight into his creative works during a visual arts lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Hatfield Hall Theater.

The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Rose-Hulman Humanities and Social Science Department's Elsie Pawley Fund, the Civil Engineering Department and Office of Administrative Services.

Acconci has earned international acclaim for his contemporary artworks since the late 1960s. His confrontational and ultimately political works have evolved from poetry writing through conceptual art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and architectural sculpture.

Acconci's artworks have been widely shown internationally, in one-person at the Sonnabend Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art, all in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and the Kolnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, Germany. His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale; Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Kunstverein and Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany.

In 1987, a major retrospective of Acconi's work, titled "Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings," originated at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California and traveled throughout the United States.

In addition to original fiction and poetry, Acconci has written critical pieces for catalogues and publications including New Observations, October and Artforum, and his extraordinary body of conceptual, performance-based videotapes, produced in the 1970s, retain an astonishing originality and force more than 30 years later. He has taught at many institutions, including the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

For more information about Acconci's program at Rose-Hulman, persons can contact campus Art Curator Matthew McNichols at (812) 877-8452.