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dc.coverage.temporalCreation date: 1970-1971en_US
dc.creatorAcconci, Vitoen_US
dc.date1970-1971en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-10-03T22:21:14Z
dc.date.available2006-10-03T22:21:14Z
dc.date.issued1970-1971en_US
dc.identifier019998en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2212en_US
dc.descriptionConversions 1 (Light/Reflection/Self-control). The screen is dark; there's a moving light; gradually it's apparent that the light is a candle, I'm moving the candle around in front of my body. The camera is fixed, the candle shows up parts of my body against the dark; I'm seen from the waist up. As I bring the candle in to my breast, the camera zooms in: the camera remains still as I use the candle to burn the hair off each breast and then, once my chest is hairless, as I pull each breast in a futile attempt to develop a woman's breast. Conversions 2 (Insistence/Adaptation/Groundwork/Display). The film is a test, a series of three-minute exercises. Fized camera: I'm walking, running, jumping, beinding over, lifting my leg, doing sit-ups - all the while attempting to keep my penis 'removed,' held between my legs. Conversions 3 (Association/Assistance/Dependence). A woman kneels behind me: I push my penis behind me, between my legs, she takes my penis into her mouth - I'm attempting to carry out the same exercises as before. (The camera shifts viewpoint here, there's an obvious camera-person, the camera-person functions as a voyeur who gives the viewer a chance to come have a closer look - when I'm seen from the front, the woman disappears behind me and I have no penis, I become the woman I've cancelled out.en_US
dc.descriptionfull view, Conversions III; montage of 8 film stills with chalk captionen_US
dc.format.extentduration: 72 minen_US
dc.format.mediumSuper 8en_US
dc.relation.ispartof118884en_US
dc.subjectBody arten_US
dc.subjectPerformance arten_US
dc.subjectSexismen_US
dc.subjectVoyeurismen_US
dc.subjectConceptual arten_US
dc.subjectVideo arten_US
dc.subjectExhibitionismen_US
dc.subjectFemale nude in arten_US
dc.subjectMale nude in arten_US
dc.subjectGender identityen_US
dc.subjectSexen_US
dc.subjectMisogynyen_US
dc.subjectTranssexualismen_US
dc.titleConversionsen_US
dc.typeImageen_US
dc.rights.accessAll rights reserveden_US
vra.techniquefilmmakingen_US
vra.techniqueperformingen_US
vra.worktypeVideo arten_US
vra.worktypePerformance arten_US
dc.contributor.displayvideo artist: Vito Acconci (American, 1940-)en_US


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