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EMBODIMENTS OF PASSING:
VITO ACCONCI’S POETICS OF FREQUENCY
&
TA(G) A(C)T
by
Richard Anthony Reid
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Richard Anthony Reid
Object Description
| Title | Embodiments of passing: Vito Acconci's poetics of frequency and Ta(g) A(c)t |
| Author | Reid, Richard Anthony |
| Author email | rreid@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Literature & Creative Writing |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-22 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
McCabe, Susan St. John, David |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kamuf, Peggy Kemp, Tony Kincaid, James |
| Abstract | In a 2003 interview, Vito Acconci points to the crucial moment of his artistic career as when he asked himself a "very obvious" question: "If I was so interested in movement why was I moving over an 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper? There's a floor out there, there's a ground, there's a street, there's a whole city." While this statement reveals Acconci's transition into, for lack of a better term, the visual art world, it also illuminates the relationship he has to his materials and media as one that thinks and moves beyond their limits. For Acconci, it his poetic process itself that "led [him] off the page" and into the fields of body and performance art, conceptual installation and, most recently, architecture. This text explores how Acconci's technique of enacting the frame disrupts practical and conventional relationships to reading and writing as they re-articulate notions of reflexivity and image in the poetic "avant-garde." It is by closely examining the inter-relationships of specific textual, installation, video and performance works of Acconci that concerns of embodiment in the contemporary digital age are recast. Acconci shows us that the techniques of radical artistic production are less the undiscovered possibilities of the "new" as much as they are our ability to re-read and re-make the text through an enactment of the frame as movement. At the same time, a poetics of frequency is necessary for the possibility of future radical textual production so often lamented since the dawn of the digital age.; "Ta(g) A(c)t" is a procedural text developed through an interpretive DNA shotgun sequencing of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans. All of the words beginning with an "a" "t" "c" and "g" of Stein's original text are paired as the coding of nucleotides demand in DNA sequencing: (A)denine to (T)hymine and (C)ytosin to (G)uanine. The resultant text is then interspersed with the announcement of the completion of the Human Genome Project from the February, 16th issue of Science magazine. The selection included here is an excerpt of a larger work. |
| Keyword | Acconci; embodiment; poetics; art history; Stein |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m909 |
| Rights | Reid, Richard Anthony |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Reid-20071105 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Reid-20071105.pdf |
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| Full text | EMBODIMENTS OF PASSING: VITO ACCONCI’S POETICS OF FREQUENCY & TA(G) A(C)T by Richard Anthony Reid A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Richard Anthony Reid |
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