Vito Acconci (1940 – 2017) was a seminal American artist whose career-long exploration of the self was captured through poetry, photography, performance, film, video, installation, and architecture. His subversive and highly physical performances of the 1960s and ’70s were characterized by "existential unease," exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression and provocation, and regularly involved crossing such boundaries as public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, real world–art world.
