Carolee Schneeman, (left) Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions 1963, Paint, glue, fur, feathers, garden snakes, glass, plastic with the studio installation "Big Boards."
(right) Hand / Heart for Ana Mendieta 1986, paint with blood, ashes, syrup on snow
Carolee Schneeman, Meat Joy 1964 Judson Church, NYC. Group performance: raw fish, chickens, sausages, wet paint,
plastic, rope, shredded scrap paper: (right) Interior Scroll, 1975
Hannah Wilke, Starification Object Series, 1975, chewing gum objects on artist’s body(right) Starification Object Series, chewing gum collage, 33 x 26 in
Hannah Wilke, February 19, 1992 #6 Intra-Venus SeriesWilke, "Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism," 1974-77
Mary Kelly (US b.1941), Postpartum Document, 1973-79A 1999 installationdrawings, graphs and charts, objects and sound recordings
Marina Abramovic (b. 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), “grandmother of performance art.” Rhythm O, performance 1977
compare Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, performance, 1964(below) Abramovic, Art Must Be Beautiful, 1975, 3 video stills
Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen), (left) Rest Energy, video with audio of heart beats, 1980
(right) Imponderabilia, performance at museum entrance, 1978
Abramovic, Balkan Baroque, 1997, Venice Biennale, Golden Lion Award
"I'm only interested in an art which can change the ideology of society...Art which is only committed to aesthetic values in incomplete...I don't defend anyone, neither the Serbs nor the Bosnians nor the Croats...I'm trying to deal with my own emotions, for example
with this tremendous feeling of shame which I have about this war. As an artist, you can only deal with what there is inside you. I'm making this play because it is the only way to
react emotionally to the war."
Abramovic, The House with the Ocean View, 2002
Ana Mendieta (b Havana, 1948; d New York,1985), Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972
compare Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1946
Mendieta, Untitled (Death of a Chicken), 1972 compare Hermann Nitsch, Viennese Actionism, First Action, 1962
Mendieta, Untitled (People Looking at Blood), 1973
Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII, 1966
Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Body Tracks), 1975
Mendieta, Untitled (Blood & Feathers), 1974
"I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe."
Mendieta, (left) Maroya (Moon), 1982: (right) Untitled (Silueta Series, Iowa), 1979
Mendieta, Silueta, 1979
Mendieta, Totem Grove Series, 1984-85 (installation Whitney MA, NYC, 2001)