First skateboard ever
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Vito Acconci shouldn’t need any introduction.
Skateboard invented 1958
His body of work is so extensive and influence so widespread it renders recapitulation redundant. That said, it can be argued that a bevy of current practitioners who weren’t born yet when Acconci was editing 0 to 9 with Bernadette Mayer and stalking strangers through the streets of Manhattan in Following Piece () owe at least some of their notoriety and success to a pronounced borrowing from his oeuvre.
Be that as it may, Acconci doesn’t seem too concerned about that at all and he, and the Acconci Studio, remain incredibly active and engaged. On the night we spoke at the studio in DUMBO in Brooklyn, a Merzbow show at St. Vitus in Greenpoint was marked on his calendar.
As he graciously left for the deli to get some coffee before we started, I told him I wanted mine with cream and sugar. “I stopped putting sugar in coffee a while back when someone told me there’s as much in a New York-style deli cup as the
