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Acconci, Vito
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2272
Date
1972
Description
Performance/installation piece at Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hidden under the ramp in the gallery, he responded to the footsteps of visitors by masturbating, transmitting his verbal fantasies and moans of pleasure back to them via a sound projection system. Through his act, the visitor becomes involved in the intersubjective articulation of 'artistic" meaning as well as the meaning of artistic subjectivity and interpretive exchange.
 
full view, ramp installation at Sonnabend Gallery, New York, January 1972
 
Type of Work
Performance art; Installation (Visual Work)
Subject
Body art, Installations (Art), Masturbation, Sexuality & cultur, Performance art --United States, Sex, Taboo, Art, American --20th century, Sonnabend Gallery (New York, N.Y.), Art, Modern --20th century
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