Sentences with phrase «masturbated under»

He points to Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972), a famous performance piece in which the artist masturbated under a ramped floor inside a gallery.

Since the early 1970s, when Chris Burden had himself publicly shot in the arm and Vito Acconci masturbated under a gallery floor as his audience walked above him, performance, installation, and video art have increasingly pushed the envelope into new, often transgressive territory.

Think of Vito Acconci's 1971 Seedbed, performed at the Sonnabend Gallery, then in SoHo, where the artist masturbated under a wooden platform, or West Coast artist Chris Burden's arrangement to have himself shot in the arm; Benglis's 1974 advertisement in Artforum, in which she is naked except for a giant, strategically placed dildo, or her dramatic, vibrantly pigmented urethane pours on gallery floors; Martha Rosler's famous performance video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975); and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party (1974 — 79).

He leaves behind an influential body of work, including Following Piece (1969), a performance in which he trailed strangers throughout New York City; Seedbed (1972), which saw him masturbate under the floor of a gallery; and Murinsel (2003), a manmade island forged from glass and metal.

His radical performances often involved provocative and disturbing actions like making prints from self - inflected bite wounds, stalking random pedestrians around New York City, and masturbating under the floorboards...

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When I was in my teens and early 20s I was called over by men in cars under the pretense of asking me a question but, as I got closer to the driver's side, discovered he was naked from the waist down and masturbating.

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, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving into complex amalgam of narrative strategies, photographic images, music and spoken language.

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.

Like everyone else forty and under, it seems, Foster is a devotee of both Cooper and YouTube, where he discovered «a teenage boy sitting on a toilet and masturbating to Nirvana's «Rape Me» — the best video art I've seen!»