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Vito Acconci, Conversions II: Insistence, Adaptation, Groundwork, Display, 1971

From the Guggenheim:

In Conversions II, the second in a trilogy of films interrogating the rigidity of gender binarism, the artist attempts to feminize his unquestionably male body by hiding his genitals between his legs. By casting his own masculinity into question, by performing its absence, Acconci problematizes the dictum that the male (or female) subject is a coherent being.

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