Participant Review:Simone Couto (MFA AP14)
Simone Couto (MFA AP14)
This text is based on the lecture Leaving a Mark—Painting Body/Gestural Body—Feminist Subjectivities, by the art historian Jovana Stokic (AP Faculty), the essay Body Art: Performing the Subject by Amelia Jones, and the work of artists Carolee Schneemann and Yayoi Kusama. I use these feminist historians and artists as examples because they reject conventional patriarchal artistic models organized around male artists and male subjectivity, as well as notions of art rooted in the object alone. Crucial to my argument is that performance of the 60s and 70s in particular, challenged the dominant patriarchal art historical tradition, pushing the boundaries of art towards the interconnectivity.
THE BODY TOWARDS SUBJECTIVITY
Carolee Schneemann | Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions |1963