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Vito Acconci, House of Cars No. 2, 1988

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Fresh Acconci - Mike Kelly and Peter McCarthy 

“Following a conversation about the physical beauty of performance artists, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy collaborated on Fresh Acconci, a restaging of early works by the New York–based artist Vito Acconci that explored questions of social interaction, the distinctions between public and private behavior, and the objectification of the human body. Using Hollywood film actors, Kelley and McCarthy set the video in a Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills, an area known as a locus of communal living and cult compounds in the 1960s and 1970s. Fresh Acconci collapses performance art with Hollywood movies and the private rituals of countercultural collectives, conflating multiple contemporary mythologies from otherwise unrelated sectors of the culture.”

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Centers (Vito Acconci 1971)

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  Source: Blouin Art info

The performance artist and designer Vito Acconci has passed away. yesterday.

He was 77 years old.

Details of are still emerging, but it is believed that the cause of his death was a stroke. The news was first broken on Instagram by writer, curator, and collector, Kenny Schachter, a friend of the artist who has shown his work.

Acconci was born January 24, 1940, in Bronx, New York. He first came to prominence in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s as part of the underground art scene in lower Manhattan. He is perhaps best known for his provocative performance work from this period, such as his infamous 1971 piece, “Seedbed,” in which he laid under a concealed wooden stage at Sonnebend Gallery and masturbated while uttering sexual fantasies about the visitors walking above him.

The artist continued to work steadily up until his death. Last year, a survey of his influential works from the 1970s, titled “VITO ACCONCI: WHERE WE ARE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?),” was shown at MoMA PS1.

for publications on Acconci see www.ftn-books.com

Vito Acconci (1940-2017) Source: Blouin Art info The performance artist and designer Vito Acconci has passed away. yesterday. He was 77 years old.

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R.I.P. Vito Acconci. Vito Acconci broke ground in the world of performance and conceptual art. He was an amazing force in action.

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RIP Vito Acconci, an artist whose work I admired and continue to do so. Work that is challenging, dislocating, discomforting. Pictured here my fave piece of his "theme song", 1973. Had two fun stories when I actually got to see him around the city. 1) At performa reading imaginary architectures that were built in your mind as he read. He mentioned an umbruffla (umbrella + ruffle) which I loved. 2) I freaked out when I would see him walking around dumbo where his studio was. I once took the train and tried to be chill and moved my hand down the subway pole so he could grab it. He looked at me and walked to the door pole instead. And I loved that too. #acconci #themesong

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Vito Acconci