510

Arte Útil archive nr:

510

Initiator:

Vito Acconci

Location:

France, Spain, Italy, Austria.

Category:

urban-development, economy, social

Users:

Citizens, artists, museum's visitors

Maintained by:

To Acconci's disappointment it is now dismantled and storage in Vienna.

Certification:

prototype

Duration:

1991

Vito Acconci
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Mobile Linear City

Description:

The artist built portable housing that can be replicated to become an entire 'city'. A semitrailer truck carries six self-contained housing units that can be telescope down into one compact module for hauling, to be set up wherever housing is needed. There are five living units, each essentially a studio apartment with a last unit housing shared utilities.

Goals:

The artist had hoped it would become a lived-in 'traveling city', but soon he realized that it was not possible due to problems of legal responsibility, permits etc.

Beneficial Outcomes:

People could live in a 'traveling city'.

Images:

Acconci Studio, Mobile Linear City, 1991, installation including six mobile housing units.
Acconci Studio, Mobile Linear City, 1991, installation including six mobile housing units.