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Carolee Schneemann 卡羅莉．施內曼
Body Collage 身體拼貼
1967
Carolee Schneemann was a pioneering feminist artist who treated her own body as both a medium and a subject. Through provocative performances staged in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, Schneemann challenged gender norms and social taboos about sexuality. The artist performed Body Collage in her New York studio. She instructed a filmmaker to shoot footage as she covered her nude body with wallpaper paste and molasses. Schneemann then ran around the space, rolled through piles of shredded white paper, and posed as a statue. The artist described the experience: ‘My intention was not simply to collage my body (as an object), but to enact movement so that the collage image would be active, found, not predetermined or posed.’ By representing the female body as empowered and energetic, Schneemann reclaims the female nude, a subject frequently represented by male artists of the Western canon. Body Collage also reclaims physical pleasure from patriarchal authority, finding joy and meaning beyond the realms of the pornographic and the taboo.
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