4/10/13: “Interior Scroll” by Carolee Schneemann
Body Art was an idea that utilized the freedom of
Performance Art to adopt whatever material or medium that the artist chose to
implement into his work. It often times
forced an intimacy between the artist and the viewer that was at times
shocking, amusing, or even poetic. Its
emergence in the late 1960’s ushered in an era of expression in which repressed
thoughts and feelings were expressed through the body. In particular, women artist used their bodies
to express fears, emotions, and sexual feelings. Such examples are illustrated in this work by
Schneemann. The work itself shows Schneemann nude standing
on a table unrolling a scroll that had previously been inserted into her
extremities. She read the scroll, which
detailed an encounter she had had with a filmmaker who had told her that fine
art avoided such graphic subject matter.
Through this work, Schneeman was able to prove the filmmaker wrong and
express her life and the experience of being a woman that was independent of
any symbols connected to being male. She
obviously didn’t like being told no.
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