In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January. (15 January 1972)
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Saturday 25th of January 1947 (-) — Gangster, bootlegger and racketeer Al Capone dies of cardiac arrest. In 1946 Capone's physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist performed examinations and concluded that he had the mentality of a 12-year-old child.