The Aesthetics of Narcissism

I found this reading a bit hard to understand. I was initially confused as to the differences between video art and other art mediums, and the distinction between self-reflexive and self-encapsulating. I did find it interesting, however, the portion of the reading that talked about this relationship of self-encapsulation and spacial disclosure.

The idea of a continually renewed view of himself or herself. This seemed like the biggest gap between video art an other art forms such as painting; the artist, or subject, as a changing part of the art that is constantly responded to and is always manipulating the work. I found a lot of what the article was talking about to remind me of what little I know about performance art. I know a little about Vito Acconci's performance work and studied a bot on how photography was used as a medium to record his performances. At parts of the article it sounded like video was more about capturing the feelings with in a performative work or expression the narcissistic ideas of doing a performance work.