Vito Acconci did not see his practice as the creation of special performances or unique objects, but instead as the making of everyday events. An American performance, video, and installation artist, Acconci highlighted mundane routines of human activity such as learning a song, testing his own body and its physical limits, and putting his trust in others as they led him around while blindfolded. In his controversial work about voyeurism and sexuality, Seedbed, a performance at Sonnabend Gallery in New York in 1972, Acconci laid underneath the floorboards of the gallery while speaking fantasies about visitors walking in the space above.

–Ariana Kaye, from the Glenstone Field Guide