Performance as Publishing

— Giles Bailey

All Whirlwind, Heat, And Flash (Undertone), 2011

In Giles Bailey’s performance the sound of Acconci’s video Undertone (1972) that has been widely circulated on the internet, is faded out and Bailey delivers a monologue that constructs an alternative narrative,  a counterpoint redolent with the clichés of a cinematic love story and replete with car chases and betrayal. Bailey becomes a vicarious counterpart to Acconci’s narcissism, living a fantasy through the structure of his video rather than the vivid sexual act he describes.

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