Conversions
dc.coverage.temporal | Creation date: 1970-1971 | en_US |
dc.creator | Acconci, Vito | en_US |
dc.date | 1970-1971 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-10-03T22:21:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-10-03T22:21:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1970-1971 | en_US |
dc.identifier | 019998 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2212 | en_US |
dc.description | Conversions 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.description | full view, Conversions III; montage of 8 film stills with chalk caption | en_US |
dc.format.extent | duration: 72 min | en_US |
dc.format.medium | Super 8 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | 118884 | en_US |
dc.subject | Body art | en_US |
dc.subject | Performance art | en_US |
dc.subject | Sexism | en_US |
dc.subject | Voyeurism | en_US |
dc.subject | Conceptual art | en_US |
dc.subject | Video art | en_US |
dc.subject | Exhibitionism | en_US |
dc.subject | Female nude in art | en_US |
dc.subject | Male nude in art | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Sex | en_US |
dc.subject | Misogyny | en_US |
dc.subject | Transsexualism | en_US |
dc.title | Conversions | en_US |
dc.type | Image | en_US |
dc.rights.access | All rights reserved | en_US |
vra.technique | filmmaking | en_US |
vra.technique | performing | en_US |
vra.worktype | Video art | en_US |
vra.worktype | Performance art | en_US |
dc.contributor.display | video artist: Vito Acconci (American, 1940-) | en_US |
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