Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric - The New York Times
Randy Kennedy
Acconci’s piece, which has in a sense unfairly overshadowed much of his other work — he constructed an angled false floor at the Sonnebend Gallery in SoHo and hid himself beneath it with a microphone, speaking luridly to the people who walked above him, masturbating as he spoke.
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