Going to see the new Carolee Schneeman retrospective at the Barbican? Then don’t miss our archive interview with the late artist from 2018. “Viscera and gore have been integral to [Schneeman’s] visual vocabulary since childhood,” explains writer Elizabeth Fullerton of the artist’s radical approach to both art and body freedom (evidenced in her 1964 work Meat Joy in which nude performers rolled around in a medley of paint, raw fish and meat). “My mum was very repressive and conservative,” Schneeman tells Fullerton, “but my dad [a physician] let me look at his anatomy books and travel in the car with him when he went to see patients.” Click here to read on.
