The film "Prying" and artist Vito Aconcci

This was indeed a strange 20 minute art film. Vito Aconcci engages actress  Kathy Dillon, and aggressively attempts to push open her eyes. She pulls back and tries to keep her eyes shut. I thought at first it was because of a bright light or she was playing a vampirish like role. Then I got the impression of torture and harassment,  however it appears that when Vito Aconcci gets her eyes open, Kathy Dillon shows only the white bottom part of her eye. She flipped her iris in rotation to the backside or up towards of the eyelid. 

(Okay now the movie Omega Man and Night of the Comet comes to mind)

I don't really understand this art, but could relate to change up of the human body. The way we some of us can bend our tongue, flip our eyes under our eyelid, and perhaps play the piano with our toes.

Either way, it was indeed a weird but interesting art film. I can't relate to Vito Aconcci's "Seabed" (1972), where he is underneath a gallery ramp, doing his guy thing, with fantasy of those walking on the ramp.  I have the same feeling with of  his other notable expressive works.

However I can relate to him roleplaying in front of a video camera. In his roleplaying Vito Aconcci is smoking, singing and humming to a love song being played on a record player near him. It is entitled "Theme Song". 

 I also like his typography art forms. He really applies structure to his typography pieces that resemble buildings and architecture. This is his famous one "City of Words", made in 1999. 

My impression of his work and the work of all art is that :

"Art is really in the eye of the beholder. It doesn't really need to be understood or appreciated, but it needs to be noticed."