Citas de Vito Acconci

• Architecture is not about space but about time.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, Architecture, Architect

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.dezeen.com. October 13, 2012.

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• What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Frustration, Thinking

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

  Vito Acconci

  Bullets, Holes

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• I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

  Vito Acconci

  Trying, Pieces, Volition

  Entrevista con Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2007.

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• Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

  Vito Acconci

  Hands, Space, Decision

  Entrevista con Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2007.

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• I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

  Vito Acconci

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces.

  Vito Acconci

  Hate, People, Goal

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.

  Vito Acconci

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside.

  Vito Acconci

  Dog, Wish, Hot

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• I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if your environment changes all the time, then maybe your ideas will change all the time.

  Vito Acconci

  Wish, Different, Environment

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, People, Track

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• It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that words are tenuous. In the middle of a large word, there's a small word that possibly contradicts the larger word. So I grew up where, on the one hand, the only thing I would ever think of doing was something in writing, music, or art, and on the other hand, I could've reacted strongly against it because it would've been a way to rebel.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Growing Up, Fall

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world would be an indistinguishable mass, a blur. You can hope, maybe, that people ascribe so many labels to you that none wins out

  Vito Acconci

  Winning, People, Giving

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• I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I ever met anyone new at an intersection? No, but I like the idea of it. I like cities because if you're stopping on the corner to wait for a light to change, there's the possibility that you and somebody else can talk. And if you and that somebody else start to talk, then you can start to argue, and if you start to argue, you might start a revolution.

  Vito Acconci

  Waiting, Revolution, Arguing

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

  Vito Acconci

  Listening, Architecture, Music Is

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• [My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

  Vito Acconci

  Personality, Cult, Performances

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• I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.

  Vito Acconci

  Home, Writing, Our World

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• The kind of influence you want is a much deeper influence. It's like empowerment. Things are like this, but what if they were like that? What happens if you turn everything inside out? It's something that not just artists do. I think scientists do that, too. There's a theory: What if we pour water on it? That's also what a child does. If a child came in now, the child would ignore us, go under the table, and make a house.

  Vito Acconci

  Children, Thinking, Artist

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?

  Vito Acconci

  Thinking, What If, Architecture

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• [Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)

  Vito Acconci

  Photography, Art, Museums

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• I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, World, Language

  Entrevista con Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. Enero de 2007.

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• When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can have a free hand in the making of it. We've done spaces where things are hinged and they can go out or in, but that's not freedom. That's supermarket freedom, or the notion that you can have anything you want as long as the supermarket carries it. We would love to do a space where you go inside and there's nothing there. You might have a seat and when you don't need it anymore you get up and it disappears.

  Vito Acconci

  Pensar, Largo, Gente

  Fuente: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Entrevista con Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2007.

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• As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Kids

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lead to, person as a sort of psychological miasma. I started to get wrapped up in self, and then, for the first time, self did become an autobiographical self.

  Vito Acconci

  Self, World, Firsts

  Entrevista con Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2007.

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