Vito Response

I found the Acconci article very interesting when discussing sex and sexuality. After reading it the first time, I found the references to sex as referees to sex in the context of gender. A tv in the sculptural/furniture sense has no gender. While it can display various objects, including those of feminine and masculine natures, the tv itself does not have any sense of gender. This can be drastically altered, however, by the display of different genders, and certain charged objects. However, with this in mind, I question the presentation of multiple genders simultaneously. Does the tv then become all of the genders presented? And with no images presented, how does this relationship change?

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