Nov. 22, 1969; City Series 1969

This document, made by Vito Acconci in 1969, looks like it might be instructions or a proposal for a performance, or some kind of conceptual piece. It's a typed page, dense with information about movement through the city; maybe he did it, or maybe he just wrote it. I'm trying to imagine what it was like for Acconci to sit down and map out someone's movements like this. He's got times, locations, directions... there's something so specific and yet so weirdly open about it. You know, I think back to my own practice, how many times I've felt like I'm just documenting, tracking, trying to make sense of where I'm going. This page, it's like a score or a map, but for what? It feels really human and strange. I think of other artists like On Kawara, who also used time and location in his work, making paintings that recorded the date he made them. Artists are constantly talking to each other across time, using each other's ideas, riffing, and remixing. It's really interesting to think about.