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Pryings
No full textPryings is a video recording of a performance by Vito Acconci in public with Kathy Dillon at a New York university.
The artist shows a situation in which he is trying by force to open the eyes of the woman who stubbornly persists in keeping them closed. The camera follows the action of the couple by focusing on the chests of two of the protagonists. He pulls at her eyelids while she keeps her eyes shut tight. She tilts her head forwards and backwards, but he takes it in his hands and straightens it again. When her long hair covers her face, Vito Acconci sweeps it away with one hand and keeps the woman against him with the other. He pulls on her skin again and one eye opens, but the woman hides her iris by turning her eyes in their orbits. The white eye sees nothing. She struggles, pulling with her the body of the artist who holds her by the shoulders. The couple's tension is a source of emotion. The live soundtrack gives an idea of their movements and, in particular, Vito Acconci's breathing becomes louder with the physical effort.
This struggle represents tensions - rather than oppositions - in couples of forces: feminine/masculine, open/closed. Vito Acconci experiments with the action of one individual aware of the other (open to the outside) on an individual closed in on herself.
The non-resolution of this situation highlights the resources used in the performance. In Vito Acconci’s conception and the logic initiated by his introspective actions - filmed in Super 8 - the performance has physical resources, the body as place or medium, and a clearly delimited space. Pryings is a representation of the performance as an artistic process and medium, and a metaphor of the idea "opening someone's eyes".film still, Acconci attempting to force open Kathy Dillon's eye with his hand
Gli effetti dell’emergenza Covid-19 su commercio, investimenti e occupazione. Una prospettiva italiana
No full textL’opera raccoglie le riflessioni suscitate e maturate grazie alle iniziative proposte ed organizzate da Pia Acconci dell’Università degli studi di Teramo quale coordinatore scientifico del Modulo Jean Monnet “EU Investment Law” (EUIL). Contribuiscono all’opera numerosi esperti italiani del Gruppo di interesse sul Diritto internazionale dell'economia della Società italiana di Diritto Internazionale e dell'Unione Europea (SIDI), di cui è co-coordinatore Elisa Baroncini dell’Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, e di soci dell’ILA Italy - Sezione italiana dell’International Law Association.
Gli esperti riscontrano che l’emergenza sanitaria abbia posto in risalto l’importanza delle clausole sulle eccezioni generali contemplate nel diritto dell’Unione Europea, negli accordi internazionali in materia di scambi e investimenti, nonché nel diritto internazionale generale. Queste sono clausole di deroga che permettono agli Stati di giustificare le misure emergenziali volte a tutelare la salute ovvero la sicurezza interna attraverso provvedimenti normativi nazionali. Tali misure, in assenza di coordinamento internazionale, sono suscettibili di risultare, tuttavia, non sufficientemente efficaci e generare il serio rischio di una dilatazione del ricorso all’unilateralismo.
La pandemia del Covid-19 è una crisi collettiva, e quindi per essere adeguatamente affrontata, necessita di una risposta anch’essa collettiva. Le analisi del volume - rivolto a studenti, accademici, amministratori di enti pubblici e organismi privati - considerano la definizione di nuove regole e metodi di collaborazione internazionali, volti a garantire l’equo e diffuso accesso ai prodotti medici, a promuovere la realizzazione di resilient supply chains (le filiere di approvvigionamento improntate a standard di sostenibilità) e ad affermare tempestivi ed efficaci metodi di solidarietà per far fronte alle emergenze trasnazionali mediante il sostegno all’occupazione
Trappings, Munchengladbach, Germany; October 17, 1971
No full textA corridor of closet spaces in an industrial warehouse at the Städisches Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany. In one of these closets, the artist crouches, naked, on a floor of toys and fabrics and plastics, detritus from a child's room. He talks to his penis, addressing it as another person; he dresses his penis in doll's clothes.detail, Acconci "dressing" his peni
Seedbed
No full textPerformance/installation piece at Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Hidden under the ramp in the gallery, he responded to the footsteps of visitors by masturbating, transmitting his verbal fantasies and moans of pleasure back to them via a sound projection system. Through his act, the visitor becomes involved in the intersubjective articulation of 'artistic" meaning as well as the meaning of artistic subjectivity and interpretive exchange.full view, Acconci masturbating under the ram
Acconci’s Pied-à-terre: Taking the archive for a walk
No full textTo kick the habit of conventional scholarship this article appeals to the affective draw of the archive via an imaginative pedestrian peregrination. It takes a walk through the uneasy spaces of Vito Acconci's 1972 work Anchors and listens to the dialogue of conflicting voices which still demand to be heard, forty years after their construction. It becomes unclear who is initiating the dialogue; the text is hard to read and perverse. The resulting disorientation of Anchors is matched by a later, larger, exhibition in Paris: Les Immatériaux, co-organised by French Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. Here the labyrinthine confusion of spaces, sounds, smells and sights acts out an excess of information, echoing the affective intensity of Acconci's Anchors. However, the parallel between Acconci and Lyotard comes through a stumbling manner: eager to avoid the foot-fall that forms a well-trodden path the aim is to keep moving. We cannot dust off these archives whilst reclining in a recumbent posture; we must leap to our feet and become participants in their performance. Neither must we aim to decode the unarticulated voices which grunt and girn their way into our reading. Such bodily emissions were termed the ‘affect-phrase’ by Lyotard, not in order to decipher their meaning, but to acknowledge their effect in leaving conventions of communication provocatively unfulfilled. Let us proceed on foot
The Integration of Non-investment Concerns as an Opportunity for the Modernization of International Investment Law: Is a Multilateral Approach Desirable?
No full textInternational organizations belonging to the United Nations (UN) system which deal with economic cooperation and development tend to promote the protection of non-economic concerns within their actions for good governance and development.
Non-economic concerns which are taken into consideration are sustainable and human development, the protection of human rights and of the environment, as well as the control of the production and sale of harmful substances.
Integration seems to be one of the more appropriate tools to achieve a balance between the protection of economic and non-economic concerns.
These trends are influencing current international investment law, as one debated issue is how to combine private interests, those of the investors, and public ones, those of the host States.
The essay aims to identify the relevant trends in international investment law to find whether, and in case how, integration is pursued
Gli effetti dell’emergenza Covid-19 su commercio, investimenti e occupazione - Una prospettiva italiana
Full text linkIl volume esamina vari profili dell’incidenza delle emergenze sanitarie internazionali su commercio, investimenti ed occupazione. Raccoglie le riflessioni di numerosi esperti italiani del Gruppo di interesse sul Diritto internazionale dell'economia della Società italiana di Diritto Internazionale e dell'Unione Europea (SIDI), di cui è Co-Coordinatore la professoressa Elisa Baroncini dell’Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, e di soci dell’ILA Italy - Sezione italiana dell'International Law Association. Si tratta di riflessioni maturate nel corso delle iniziative proposte ed organizzate dalla professoressa Pia Acconci dell’Università degli studi di Teramo quale coordinatore scientifico del Modulo Jean Monnet “EU Investment Law” (EUIL). L’opera propone a studenti, accademici, amministratori di enti pubblici e organismi privati chiavi di lettura variegate delle modalità di risposta alle emergenze sanitarie collettive e alle crisi economiche transnazionali. Diversi contributi all'opera collettanea evidenziano inoltre come gli Stati possano realizzare, grazie alla partecipazione a organizzazioni internazionali, attività di controllo e prevenzione dei conflitti di norme derivanti dall'interazione tra interessi sociali, quali la tutela della salute e il sostegno all'occupazione, ed economici, come le aspettative di profitto degli operatori del commercio internazionale
Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio. Une architecture en projet
No full text«Vito Acconci /Acconci Studio. Une architecture en projet», dvd rom, conception, réalisation Pierre Braun, Présent composé, Rennes, 2005 Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio. Une architecture en projet. Édition hypermédia de création et de recherche. Livret de 40 pages couleurs + DVD-ROM (projet soutenu par le Conseil scientifique de Rennes 2, le Frac Bretagne, la fondation ICAR, et Odradek, revue sonore en ligne), 2004 PC Pentium 80 MHZ ; 32 Mo Ram ; écran 800x600 (14") minimum ; windows 95 ou ultéri..
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