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Carolee Schneemann’s Performance of the 1960s and Reproduction of Sabbat

LeeMoonJung 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

Carolee Scheemann has used her body as her primary medium of philosophical and socio-political criticism since the 1960s when the discussion on feminism did not begin in earnest in art. Schneemann’s performance in the 1960s had a trait of the sabbat, which was the coven and the carnival of women, in the content and format. Firstly,Schneemann performed an erotic rite representing in a public sphere the sexuality and body that made women witches. Her performance violated social taboo and integrated sanctity and secularity. Secondly, Schneemann displayed an act of animism through her performance. She also presented herself as a offering to a goddess, a priestess, and a goddess. Thirdly, Schneemann has carried her performance like a divine ritual through the chaotic theater of cruelty and carnival for purification that coexists eros and thanatos, creation and extinction, and joy and despair. Schneemanns erformance is the restoration of the pre-symbolic and eruption of the semiotic. Her performance, which gives a free rein to repressed unconsciousness and stirs up imaginary defiance, brings out the regeneration and rehabilitation that breaks down a hardening of society and creates a fluidly moving world.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.