Monday, November 12, 2012
I looked at Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy piece, I know it's a pretty popular and highly debated because she's rolling around in meat with guys and girls in very little clothing. I thought it was successful- weird, but successful knowing her feminist background. The dominant male objectifying women similar to a piece of meat. Something that consumerism of products really makes women feel-especially in the 80's. So many ad's of what women are like it brings picking out the right woman to level of picking out the right piece of meat from the deli.
This piece was not only interactive in that you could feel apart of the space of the art, but it also used sense usually not even used in performance like tasting and smelling. The smell of the raw meat-and the fact that some of these people are putting the meat in their mouths. It's a sexual piece and was obviously risky for the time period where sexuality was a taboo subject.
I appreciate her feminist approach-and I'm glad she made it into the moma and other prestigious museums because women's work should never be labeled "womens art" it is just art and should be represented no different than mens-but included just as often as mens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_wW2v45eI
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