Acconci began his career as a poet. With Mayer, a fellow poet, he founded and distributed the photocopied magazine 0 TO 9, which ran from 1967 to 1969, publishing poems and event scores in what Acconci has called “an installation of words on the physical space of the page.” The title of the journal refers to American painter Jasper Johns’s series of paintings called 0 Through 9 (a print version of which is included in the exhibition). Acconci said, “I wanted words to be material the way Johns let numbers and letters be material.”