Vito Acconci(1940-2017)
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
![Chris Burdern guaranteed his place in art history in 1971 with a period of often dangerous and at times stomach-churning performances. After having himself shot, locked up in a locker for five days, electrocuted, and crucified on the back of a VW bug, Burden reinvented himself as the creator of truly mesmerizing installations and sculptures, from a suspended gigantic flywheel that seemingly spins on its own, to an assemblage of antique streetlights rewired for solar energy and illuminated outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzUxMmQ5N2UtYmE4YS00MjI2LTg3MTEtZWI4ZDY2NmM1MGJiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTkxNjUyNQ@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,0,500,281_.jpg)
Vito Acconci was born on 24 January 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Red Tapes (1977), Three Adaptation Studies (1970) and The Golden Boat (1990). He was married to Rosemary Mayer. He died on 27 April 2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.