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50 years ago, the artist Valie Export ripped her trousers
On April 22nd 1969, with her pubis showing and sub-machine gun in hand, the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, then aged 29, performed her historic Aktionhose: Genitalpanik. We look back at this work as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.