{"id":132,"title":"Tonight We Escape from New York","dimensions":"151 x 118 x 5 cm","date_begin":"1977-01-01","material":"b/w photo, crayon, paper, plexi on black aluminium","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":77,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"collage","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eStichting Gordon Matta-Clark With ‘Tonight We Escape from New York’ Vito Acconci opens the interrogation of gender politics in concept art. A critical installation to experience the intensity of life. By the use of black paper and white crayons he elaborates visible mental context or space and leads the public towards an almost real physical experience as much as the installation world .\u003c/p\u003e","date_end":null,"reference":"S0071","stream_count_app":84,"permalink":"tonight-we-escape-from-new-york","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Vito Acconci","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Collage","nl":"Collage","fr":"Collage"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/173/large/Acconci,%200001%20Vito,%20Tonight%20we%20escape%20from%20New%20York,%201977%20foto%20A4A%20vzw.jpg?1297860374","poster_credits":"(c)image: A4Avzw.","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTonight We Escape From New York\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;was part of another audio-installation, originally shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The large-scale, white-on-black chalk drawing shows a rope ladder to be installed in the museum with four speakers alongside it; through these speakers fragments of a racist dialogue were broadcast, sounding as if they rose and fell along the ladder.\u003c/p\u003e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Ladder hanging from top to bottom of the Whitney Museum (rope ladder with metal rungs). The ladder forms a whole with the walls and landings - as if he has always been there - this is an escape route that we have forgotten, now it is here in front of our eyes. \"\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Vito Acconci\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis two-dimensional work, framed behind glass, shows the concept of the installation at the Whitney Museum in New York with the same title. A drawing of a staircase in the cross section is made on black paper with white crayon. The right drawing shows the stairs of the four floors, the left drawing shows a rope ladder and four loudspeakers. We see on the black paper, also in white crayon, hand-written texts that describe the system as mentioned above. Furthermore, we see two pictures of a staircase with a rope ladder and a close-up of the rope ladder. Acconci creates an exhibition-context where there is 'officially' none. Not in the exhibition halls, but in the stairwell of the Whitney Museum in New York, he gives the audience a physical experience while one is moving up or down. During the stair climb, a voice, through the loudspeakers, says: YOU MADE IT: YOU'RE A NIGGER: HIGHER, HIGHER. Descending a voice says: WE MADE YOU: YOU'RE A BITCH, GET DOWN. The stairwell is \"out of the way\" but is simultaneously an in and exit. The political and social tension of the work remains an issue and raises many questions. The rope ladder highlights the fact that the staircase can be an escape route. Where would we escape from? Of a disaster such as a fire, a terrorist attack, the oppressive exhibition-context or the insulting words fired at the audience?\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Ladder hangt van boven het Whitney tot onder (touwladder met metalen sporten). De ladder vormt één geheel met de muren en overlopen – alsof hij er altijd geweest is – dit is een ontsnappingsroute die we vergeten zijn, nu is hij hier vlak voor onze ogen.”\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Vito Acconci\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDit tweedimensionaal werk, ingekaderd achter glas, toont het concept van de installatie in het Whitney Museum te New York met dezelfde (bovengenoemde) titel. Op zwart papier is met wit vetkrijt een tekening van de traphal in dwarsdoorsnede aangebracht. Rechts op de tekening zien we de trappen van vier verdiepingen, links een touwladder en vier geluidsboxen. We zien op het zwarte papier, ook in wit vetkrijt, handgeschreven teksten die de installatie beschrijven waaronder de tekst hierboven. Verder zien we nog twee foto’s van een traphal met een touwladder en een close-up van de touwladder. Acconci creëert een tentoonstellingscontext dáár waar er ‘officieel’ geen is. Niet in de tentoonstellingszalen, maar in de traphal van het Whitney Museum te New York geeft hij het publiek een lijfelijke ervaring mee terwijl men zich naar boven of naar onder beweegt. De trap bestijgend hoort men een stem uit de geluidsboxen die zegt: JE HEBT HET GEMAAKT: JE BENT EEN NIKKER: HOGER, HOGER. Al dalend zegt een stem: WE HEBBEN JE GEMAAKT: JE BENT EEN TRUT, NAAR BENEDEN. De traphal is ‘uit de weg’ maar is tegelijkertijd in- en uitgangsweg. De politieke en sociale geladenheid van het werk blijft actueel en roept veel vragen op. De touwladder benadrukt het feit dat de traphal een ontsnappingsroute kan zijn. Waar zouden we van ontsnappen? Van een ramp zoals een brand, een terroristische aanslag, van de benauwende tentoonstellingscontext of van de beledigende woorden die op het publiek worden afgevuurd?\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":93,"name":"Vito Acconci","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}