"What distinguished Ms. Export’s work, beyond its aggression and sheer volume, was its lucidity."

I'm reading "Valie Export, Who Made Art With Her Naked Body, Dies at 85" (NYT).

Ms. Export was best known for two pieces she staged in the late 1960s and early ’70s. In the first, “Action Pants: Genital Panic,” she walked into a movie theater in Munich in 1968, wearing crotchless pants that put her exposed genitals directly in the sightline of seated theatergoers.... As she walked down the aisle, she announced, “Now you will see in reality what you normally see on the screen.” In a photo taken a year later to commemorate the piece, Ms. Export underscored the radically confrontational nature of the work by accessorizing her all-black, crotchless outfit with a machine gun.

For “Tap and Touch Cinema,” first staged at a film festival in Vienna in 1968 and then in nine other cities throughout Europe, Ms. Export (or sometimes a collaborator) wore a cardboard or aluminum “cinema” — an empty box with curtains at the front — strapped to her chest. Walking down the street alongside the artist Peter Weibel, who drummed up interest with a megaphone, she invited passers-by to “visit the cinema” by reaching through the curtains to touch her bare breasts. She made a point of maintaining eye contact while they did so.