Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci (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. In the late-1970s, he turned to sculpture, architecture and design, greatly increasing the scale of his work, if not his art world profile. Over the next two decades he developed public artworks and parks, airport rest areas, artificial islands and other architectural projects that frequently embraced participation, change and playfulness. Notable works of this period include: Personal Island, designed for Zwolle, the Netherlands (1994); Walkways Through the Wall at the Wisconsin Center, in Milwaukee, WI (1998); and Murinsel, for Graz, Austria (2003). Retrospectives of Acconci's work have been organized by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1978) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1980), and his work is in numerous public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1980, 1983, 1993), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979), and American Academy in Rome (1986).[6] In addition to his art and design work, Acconci taught at many higher learning institutions. Acconci died on April 27, 2017, in Manhattan at age 77.

Known For: Directing

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1940-01-24

Died: 2017-04-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Digging Piece	Self	0
2	1970	Flour/Breath Piece	Self	0
3	1970	Gargle/Spit Piece	Self	0
4	1970	Three Adaptation Studies	Himself	0
5	1971	Remote Control	Himself	0
6	1971	Association Area	Himself	0
7	1971	Claim Excerpts	Himself	0
8	1971	Pryings		0
9	1971	Centers	Self	0
10	1971	Conversions 1	Himself	0
11	1972	Seedbed		0
12	1972	Undertone	Vito Acconci	0
13	1973	Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Vito Acconci	Himself	0
14	1974	My Word	Himself	0
15	1974	Turn-On	Himself	0
16	1975	Body Art	Self	0
17	1977	The Red Tapes	Himself	0
18	1980	Journeys from Berlin/1971		90
19	1981	How to Fly		0
20	1981	14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s	Himself	0
21	1991	The Golden Boat	Swiss assassin	61
22	1999	Steven Holl: The Body in Space	Self	0
23	2006	You're Going to Die!	Narrator	0
24	2008	Chelsea on the Rocks	Self	56
25	2009	The Art of Time	Self	0
26	2013	Revenge of the Mekons	Himself	70
27	2016	Burden	Self	60
28		Two Takes	Self	0

Vito Acconci

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Television