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On Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera, 1963. In 1962 I began a loft environment built large panels interlocked by rhythmic color units, broken mirrors and glass, lights, moving umbrellas, and motorized parts. I worked with my whole body—the scale of the panels and incorporating my own physical scale.
Schneemann also used her loft as a setting for performance-based projects, including Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions (1963). She had the Icelandic artist Erro take photographs of her posing naked—her body painted to reinforce the connection between the stroke of paint and the artist’s body—among various materials, including feathers ...
Carolee Schneemann. Eye Body #2 from Eye Body: 36. Transformative Actions for Camera. 1963. These works are part of a portfolio.. 18 works online.
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Carolee Schneemann Eye Body #2 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera 1963. Not on view. Medium. Gelatin silver print, printed 2005. Dimensions. 24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) Credit. Gift of the artist. Object number. 1780.2015.1. Copyright. © 2024 Estate of Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy. of Galerie Lelong & Co., and P•P•O•W, New York.
Though works such as Eye Body were meant to explore the processes of painting and assemblage, rather than address feminist topics, they still possess a strong female presence. In Schneemann's earlier work, she is seen as addressing issues of patriarchal hierarchies in the 1950s American gallery space.
The present work is comprised of a select grouping of twelve vintage photographs from Carolee Schneemann’s iconic body of performances: Eye Body 36 Transformative Actions from 1963. A complete collection of all the images is within the collection of the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., however very few of the ...
Categories: Performance. Keywords: Feminism | Body | Material. Works by Carolee Schneemann: Electronic Activation Room Fuses Meat Joy. Carolee Schneemann. «Eye Body» «Her first body action was made in private for the expressed purpose of producing photographs, taken by her friend, the Icelandic artist Errò.
