Vito Acconci

01Downer's arrest came after she showed women their own cervices using a plastic speculum and a flashlight at a Los Angeles feminist health clinic.
02The prosecution's key exhibit was a jar of yogurt Downer had inserted into a woman's vagina as a yeast infection remedy — the 'yogurt case.'
03Her 1972 acquittal was cited in the founding documents of the women's self-help health movement, which spread to 50 cities within three years.

Ferrofluid on glass, with a neodymium magnet underneath

2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima ( National Roman Museum )

Acconci hid under a gallery ramp, masturbating and whispering sexual fantasies at the footsteps overhead — the whole act transmitted through speakers. The gallery was Sonnabend, 1972. His target was whoever paused.