The works
include reenactments of Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972), in which the artist occupied the space under a
false floor, masturbating and speaking through a microphone to visitors above; Valie Export's Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969) in which Export walked through a movie theater in crotchless pants, challenging the audience to turn from the images of women on the screen to a real female body; and Abramovic's own Lips of Thomas (1975), in which she ate a kilogram of honey and drank a liter of red wine before breaking her glass with her hand, incising a star in her stomach with a razor blade, whipping herself until she «no longer felt pain,» then lying down on an ice cross while a space heater suspended above her caused her to bleed even more profusely.