19 February 2006

Lil Babylon

Vito Acconci speaking to Hans Ulrich Obrist: "...I paid attention to phrases like, "A person who lives by the sword dies by the sword." In other words, if a project starts out as private, it ends private; if something is meant to be public, it better start at least as a semi-public project. Now, one is private, and two is a couple, a mirror image, but three is a crowd; three spoils the couple, so it must be the beginning of public..."