AND is proud to present an exhibition and personal appearance by the renowned American artist Carolee Schneemann, who will take over Tate Liverpool’s Wolfson Gallery for the duration of the festival. 

Revered for her pioneering and provocative work in performance and film, Schneemann deploys her own body as both subject matter and a source of knowledge. Early works such as Meat Joy, in which semi-naked performers grappled with one another within an orgiastic mélange of fleshy, messy materials, shifted the visceral materiality of the body into the expressive realm of the painter’s canvas.

In the context of the women’s movement in the 1970s, Schneemann’s practice introduced the body of the artist as the source of creative and imaginative energy as well as the site and subject of the work. 

Dates: 23-27 September 2009
Location: Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool