From reading out a scroll taken from her vagina to rolling around in paint and raw meat, the US artist changed culture with her provocative performance pieces, writes Lillian Crawford. In 1977, the US ...

Forty years ago on August 29, 1975, the thirty-six-year-old artist Carolee Schneemann pulled a scroll from her vagina. The performance, titled Interior Scroll, is an essential moment in performance ...

LONDON — For Carolee Schneemann, the personal was political. She saw the body — in particular, her own body — as inextricably entwined with its physical and sociopolitical environment, and therefore ...

Film, video, self shot 16 mm (color, silent), original film burned with fire and acid, painted and collaged 03/26/2020–04/25/2020 Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.

Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy, 1964. © Carolee Schneemann, © Bildrecht, Wien, 2015. Courtesy of C. Schneemann and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York. Photo: Al Giese. In ...

Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope ...

She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself Carolee Schneemann was ...