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Vito Acconci, TELE-FURNI-SYSTEM, 1997
From the Guggenheim:
Acconci’s recent TELE-FURNI-SYSTEM, an installation designed for watching video (his own and those of other artists), invites each visitor to interact with the environment by choosing his or her own viewing positions from a menu of different architectural options. Each monitor serves as a separate video channel and a building block in the network of stairs, benches, and lounges that constitute the piece. Here it is the viewer who activates the space by physically engaging with it and contemplating the panoply of moving images on display.