Seminal (or Germinal) Performance Pieces
by laceys Posted on February 22, 2010 in Contemporary Art Issues & Images and tagged Carolee Schneeman, Hermann Nitsch, Karen Finley, Marina Abramovic, performance art, Vito Acconci
“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information,” wrote Carolee Schneeman in “The Notebooks (1962-63)” in More Than Meat Joy. The carnal richness and frenzy of Meat Joy (which we watched at the beginning of our last class) offers a counterpoint to the formal concerns of minimalist artists and the cerebral concerns of conceptual […]