"When I thought of myself as a writer in the 1960s, I questioned what made me go from the left to the right margin, from one page to another. As I thought of the space I was also thinking about time. Then I thought: ‘Why am I limiting myself to a piece of paper when there’s a world out there?’ I focused on performance in the early 1970s because the common language of the time was ‘finding oneself.’ In a time like that, what else could I do but turn in on myself and then go from me to you? Photography, film, and video were sidesteps–spaces in front of you–whereas I was more interested in the space where you were in the middle. Now I’m involved with peopled spaces–that’s design and architecture."
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Vito Acconci interview, in The Art Newspaper, Art Basel edition, December 5, 2012.
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Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.
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