Acconci is a performance and video artist who uses his own body a subject to confront and expose issues/ bring out messages. He's interested in the human body and its relationship to public spaces.
1971, Acconci held performance/display "Seedbed" in the Sonabend gallery. During "Seedbed" Acconci would lay hidden underneath a gallery-wide ramp installed at the Sonnabend Gallery, masturbating while vocalizing into a loudspeaker his fantasies about the visitors walking above him on the ramp. One motivation behind Seedbed was to involve the public in the work's production by creating a situation of reciprocal interchange between artist and viewer. (source: wikipedia)
Dirt Wall (1991) is a sizable public piece in Denver consisting of a Plexiglas and stainless-steel encasement of stratified dirt snaking out from the ground in front of the center and flowing for 352 feet along the building's various curving walls, indoors as well as out.
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