Response to Schneeman

Drawing as a Veinous System, Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann is an American painter that has ventured into performance works and installations Her works mainly focus on the body, and she has used ropes in a couple of performances, in order to test her physical limits.

Schneeman's performance works are meticulously planned and they all begin with drawings. Before this semester I had no idea how much work goes into a performance work. There is so much planning involved in her performances, and strategies have to be in place for the performance to work. The outcome of the work is never the primary concern, it is the creation of the work that matters.

"Drawings are the physical embrace for images in space, the extension of musculature onto the page. The drawings are the visual embodiment of gestures, momentum, the illusive motions that carry the parameters for shaping actions."