Carolee Schneemann

A great deal of influence has come from Schneeman! Here are some main points we've extracted from the books read by/about her.

giving life to art rather than aesthetiscing life
Schneeman as a miner of the hidden, the unseen, the stolen and misappropriated
uncovers unconscious anxiety in the social matrix
personal as political

sensual pleasure, sexual equality

motivating factors for performance:
to confront paradoxes, to bridge the conventionally public/private areas of experience
no part of the body should be considered taboo
giving our bodies back to ourselves

embrace emphatically conceived and lucidly sexual
capacity for expressive life and for love are insolubly linked
work has direct relationship to your social/sexual/emotional life

"I decided my genital was my soul...soul was 'true and most perfect' ...the soul was some essence of being"

"when I said LOVE I meant EROTIC love; deep, transforming bounty one imparts to another reciprocally, it assumes all!"
to joyfully put all we are into another's hands

I didn't stand naked in front of 300 people because I wanted to be fucked