Vito Acconci
American performance and installation artist
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- In Western painting: Body and performance art
…works of the New York-based Vito Acconci were more essentially ironic. His notorious Seedbed (1972) involved him masturbating under a ramp in a gallery. As he imagined the audience walking above him, his groans were relayed to them via a loudspeaker. The work both empowered him, insofar as he achieved…
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