MOON STORIES

GEMINI NEW MOON STORY: THE BALANCER / Carolee Schneeman

When the artist Carolee Schneemann first exhibited in Paris in 1964, a shocked Marcel Duchamp declared the performance the messiest work of art that France had ever witnessed. Meat Joy featured half a dozen men and women, semi-nude and plastered in red paint, writhing with dead fish and raw chicken, as well as each other.

Image: Carolee Schneemann’s Eye Body #11, 1963.

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