Thursday, 5 March 2015

Carolee Schneemann (1939 - )

Up To And Including Her Limits was the direct result of Pollock's physicalized painting process....I am suspended in a tree surgeon's harness on a three-quarter-inch manila rope, a rope which I can raise or lower manually to sustain an entranced period of drawing– my extended arm holds crayons which stroke the surrounding walls, accumulating a web of colored marks. My entire body becomes the agency of visual traces, vestige of the body's energy in motion." - Retrieved from this link
Watch this video to get a better understanding of Schneemann's "performance art", where she incorporates the body into her work:

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