A mix of possible routes: BLDGBLOG speaks with Vito Acconci

A quick note before I hit the highway: I'll be interviewing Vito Acconci on Saturday, live in Reno at the Nevada Museum of Art. This will be part of the Museum's 2008 Art + Environment Conference, previously discussed here.

[Image: Vito Acconci, Blinks, Nov 23, 1969].

From an article about Acconci's work in The New York Times:

''My biggest fear is that architecture is necessarily a kind of totalitarian activity, a kind of prison, in that when you design a space you're probably designing people's behavior in that space,'' he says. ''So the goal of our work is to make a mix, a mix of possible routes, a mix of alternate routes, alternate channels.''

Be sure to read Shelley Jackson's interview with Acconci in The Believer, take a look at his work courtesy of Azure, and stop by another profile of the artist-architect over at designboom.

[Image: An artificial island in Austria, designed by Vito Acconci].

I'll report back with details next week (and hopefully with a transcript or recording of the event), and I hope to find the time to do some blogging from the event itself.
Of course, if you're anywhere near Reno, please stop by!

[Image: Vito Acconci, from Following Piece, 1969].

(Note that the title for this post – "A mix of possible routes" – comes from the profile of Acconci written by Aric Chen for The New York Times).