Title
Meat joy
1964
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1964
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- 16mm film transferred to digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, colour, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:06:00 min; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 311.2007
- Copyright
- © Estate of Carolee Schneemann/ARS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Carolee Schneemann
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About
Filmed by Pierre Dominik Gaisseau, Editor: Bob Giorgio.
Writes Schneemann: 'Meat Joy' is an erotic rite - excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic - shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the "sacred erotic". This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of 'Meat Joy' at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City. (Electronic Arts Intermix website, http://www.eai.org)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
2008 Biennale of Sydney: revolutions-forms that turn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008