{"id":30047,"date":"2017-04-28T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=30047"},"modified":"2017-04-28T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:25:48","slug":"question-everything-performance-to-architecture-vito-acconci-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/04\/28\/question-everything-performance-to-architecture-vito-acconci-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Question Everything, &#8211; Performance to Architecture,  Vito Acconci Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1accTrademarks1970-e1493397674173.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1accTrademarks1970-e1493397674173.jpg\" alt=\"1accTrademarks1970\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30048\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/vito-acconci-performance-test\">Performance Test <\/a> (1969) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acconci.com\/\">Vito Acconci homepage <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vito_Acconci\">His wiki <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vito<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2017\/04\/28\/vito-acconci-dies-at-77\/\"> Dies at 77 (art news) <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vito Hannibal Acconci (January 24, 1940 \u2013 April 28, 2017)[2] was an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1AcconciQuestion-e1493398072400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1AcconciQuestion-e1493398072400.jpg\" alt=\"1AcconciQuestion\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30049\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Saw this at the gallery in Soho). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2016\/07\/13\/question-everything-vito-acconci-on-his-remarkable-survey-at-moma-ps1\/\">Question everything <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1acconcidigitalportrait-e1493398175375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1acconcidigitalportrait-e1493398175375.jpg\" alt=\"1acconcidigitalportrait\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30050\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>digital image<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designindaba.com\/articles\/creative-work\/digital-portrait-vito-acconci\">Portrait from the artwork Veto Vito by Jonathan Harris. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy early work nearly ruined my career,\u201d Vito told Harris by email, \u201cand also nearly killed me,\u201d he told later him in person. \u201cWhat does a body artist do as a body grows old? It seemed necessary to find a new direction.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the mid-1970s, Acconci stopped doing performances, and turned to architecture, to which he\u2019s been committed ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/04\/30\/bric-a-bra-c\/\">Bric a Bra <\/a> (links to his giant bra installation) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecityreview.com\/momopen15.gif\">or see it here <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1artstreetworks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1artstreetworks.jpg\" alt=\"1artstreetworks\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1artstreetworks.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1artstreetworks-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Weiner, Scott Burton, Anne Waldman, Vito Acconi, Bernadette Mayer, Eduardo Costa and John Perreault, NYC, 1969<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2015\/09\/09\/r-i-p-john-perreault-of-artopia-his-marcel-duchamp-interviews\/\">photo via <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Vito+Acconci&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Search+Images&#038;tbm=isch&#038;gws_rd=ssl\">Google Vito Acconci <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance Test (1969) Vito Acconci homepage His wiki Vito Dies at 77 (art news) Vito Hannibal Acconci (January 24, 1940 \u2013 April 28, 2017)[2] was an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist. (Saw this at the gallery in Soho). Question everything digital image Portrait from the artwork Veto Vito by Jonathan Harris. \u201cMy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/04\/28\/question-everything-performance-to-architecture-vito-acconci-dies-at-77\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Question Everything, &#8211; Performance to Architecture,  Vito Acconci Dies at 77&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-design-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}