selfportraiture Tag

‘Performance itself is an activist medium’: Eye Body is a gaggle show featuring work during which the artist can be the topic “Covered in paint, grease, chalk, ropes, plastic, I established my body as visual territory,” observed Carolee Schneemann, looking back at her 1963 artwork Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera. On this – one in all her most enduring works – the American artist painted her body and employed a medley of props for a series of performance-based photographs. “Not only am I a picture maker,” she said, “but I explore the image values of flash material I decide to make work with.” Adopting the moniker Eye Body, a recent group...