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Also known as Vito Hannibal Acconci, Vito Acconi

American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist (1940-2017)

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Born
1940
Works
39

Top works

  • Image Bank post card show
  • Vidéo topiques
  • Think/leap/re-think/fall
  • Pulse (for my mother)
  • Acconcity

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1940-01-24

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Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. Acconci began his career as a poet, editing 0 TO 9 with Bernadette Mayer in the late 1960s. In the late 1960s, Acconci transformed himself into a performance and video artist using his own body as a subject for photography, film, video, and performance. His performance and video work was marked heavily by confrontation and Situationism. <a href="https:

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  • SHELLEY JACKSON: You began as a writer, moved to performance art, then architecture. I’d like to follow the traces of writing through your career, and see whether your late work could be rethought as a radically materialist practice of writing. What made you want to write?

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Key facts

Born
Vito Hannibal Acconci , ( 1940-01-24 ) January 24, 1940, New York City, U.S.
Died
April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27) (aged 77), New York City, U.S.
Education
College of the Holy Cross ( BA ), University of Iowa ( MFA )
Known for
Landscape architect , Installation art , Performance art , Video art
Notable work
0 to 9
Website
www .acconci .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Crash, photointaglio, aquatint, relief and shaped embossing by Acconci, 1985 Face of the Earth, #3, sculpture by Acconci, 1988 City of Words, lithograph by Acconci, 1999 Murinsel (in the night) in Graz, Austria Vito Acconci ( Italian: [ˈviːto akˈkontʃi], /əˈkɒntʃi/; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His performance and video art was characterized by "existential unease," exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression and provocation, as well as wit and audacity, and often involved crossing boundaries such as public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, and real world–art world. His work is considered to have influenced artists including Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, Bruce Nauman, and Tracey Emin, among others.

Acconci was initially interested in radical poetry, creating 0 to 9 Magazine, but by the late 1960s he began creating Situationist-influenced performances in the street or for small audiences that explored the body and public space. Two of his most famous pieces were Following Piece (1969), in which he selected random passersby on New York City streets and followed them for as long as he was able, and Seedbed (1972), in which he claimed that he masturbated while under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery, as visitors walked above and heard him speaking.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vito Acconci” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.