Question Everything, – Performance to Architecture, Vito Acconci Dies at 77
Performance Test (1969)
Vito Hannibal Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 28, 2017)[2] was an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.
(Saw this at the gallery in Soho).
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Portrait from the artwork Veto Vito by Jonathan Harris.
“My early work nearly ruined my career,” Vito told Harris by email, “and also nearly killed me,” he told later him in person. “What does a body artist do as a body grows old? It seemed necessary to find a new direction.”
In the mid-1970s, Acconci stopped doing performances, and turned to architecture, to which he’s been committed ever since.
Bric a Bra (links to his giant bra installation)
Hannah Weiner, Scott Burton, Anne Waldman, Vito Acconi, Bernadette Mayer, Eduardo Costa and John Perreault, NYC, 1969
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