As a new retrospective opens at the Barbican in London, four artists, writers and editors speak on Carolee Schneemann’s playful, pioneering artistic legacy
“Ordinarily it would feel like a betrayal to focus on the beauty of a female artist; I think, though,best work that it would be remiss of me not to refer to it.
and if she hit out at the constraints and indignities visited on her by dint of her being female, she never once seemed annoyed or disappointed by the fact of occupying a woman’s body., the book-length-essay I wrote about self-injury in art and entertainment, but when I did, it was to relay something she had told me when I interviewed her in 2015: that ‘[female] performance has these [historical] connections with and traditions in cultural pleasure, for the male gaze and a male audience.
Carolee was, for me, always a voice of reason in the contemporary art world and I measured and measure all artwork against her work and intellect.
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