Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann
Schneemann was a controversial, and multidisciplinary feminist artist, who used her own body, through performance, to play with concepts like eroticism, desire, sex-“heterosexual”, and the female body’s representation. She works in different medium like painting, photography, installations, as well as performance. However, before she started her involvement in performance, she was a painter. The continued use of painting references in her performance gives a sense of the importance of this technique for Schneemann. Through her work Schneemann has been trying to re-shape the definition of eroticism, as well as female sexuality. I am not sure if she was challenging, or using the traditional and repressive way of seeing female’s body and sexuality. However, the intension of the artist was to establish different ways of seeing female desire. There was a controversy in the way this artist was using the representation of her body.