Difference and Gender

Barbara Kruger
Your Body is a Battleground
1989





Yoko Ono
Cut Piece
1965, Carnegie Hall



Carolee Schneeman
Meat Joy
1964

First performed as part of the First Festival of Free Expression at the American Center in Paris, and later at Judson Memorial Church in NYC.

"Meat Joy has the character of an erotic rite: excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chickens, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, rope brushes, paper scrap. It's propulsion is toward the ecstatic-- shifting and turning between tenderness, wilderness, precision, abandon: qualities which could at any

Janine Antoni, Loving Care

Joan Semmel, Intimacy/Autonomy