Vito Acconci

Vito grew to despise his Italian heritage. He thought that Italians couldn't create good art. He abandoned poetry, for it had too many restrictions. He felt that the parameters were too constrained and rule-bound. He felt that performance art was free of boundaries, and could accept all expression in their raw forms. His performance art would eventually shock and absorb its audience all at the same time. His monotone vocal aspects would later reveal that he was totally against any emotion in his particular art form. He felt that emotion was too general a feeling to express in art.

Vito’s privatism would envelop his art. I found his boundariless art forms to the degree of self-mutilation very intriguing. I was dismayed to learn he no longer preformed art, but was interested in his new interactive form in which he created art that the public could be apart of.