Undertone (1972)

In this now infamous tape exemplary of his early transgressive performance style Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbing his legs under the table Carrying on a rambling dialogue that shifts back and forth between the cameraspectator and himself Acconci sexualizes the implicit contract between performer and viewer the viewer serving as a voyeur who makes the performance possible by watching and completing the scene believing the fantasy