Vito Acconci

Date: 05 Jul. 1978 ( Travel Exhibitions )

Institution: Kunstmuseum Luzern

The exhibition in Lucerne and the catalogue that accompanied it brought together all such interventions which the artist had made from the beginning of the 1970s until 1978 and entitled Cultural Space Pieces. The catalogue presents photos of the installations as well as texts in which the artist discusses them, replete with sketches, technical data and the architectural plan of the whole of the (...) xhibition space. To complete this comprehensive documentation, unprecedented both as an installation and a publication, the artist also created a new installation—the last of his series of Cultural Space Pieces—in the largest hall of the Lucerne Museum, and entitled it Asylum (all the others seek asylum), in reference to Switzerland’s political principles and its tradition of affording asylum to political refugees. The audio text that was broadcast as a part of the installation was recorded by the artist in English, as well as in Switzerland’s three principal national languages. The publication is completed by an interview between Vito Acconci and Martin Kunz, in English as well as in German translation.