Director, Glenn Lowry: The artist, Vito Acconci.
Artist, Vito Acconci: The usual situation of art is contemplation. But in contemplation, one person's always in some way passive. I wanted the viewer to be more active. So I wanted to set up an interaction, maybe even a collision, with some kind of exchange, between artist and viewer.
First I started thinking about me then I started thinking about me and another person. Then I started thinking about me and another person in a space.
I think of art as a way of thickening the plot, complicating something. You take a situation that ordinarily exists in the world, and you say, ‘What happens if I turn it upside down? What happens if I turn it inside out?’ In that sense, I think of myself as an artist.