In this striking picture by the Italian photographer Fabrizio Garghetti, the radical American artist Carolee Schneemann revisits her 1970s performance, Up to and Including Her Limits, for a Fluxus retrospective held in 1990. The work, which had multiple iterations and usually featured Schneemann in the nude, saw the artist suspend herself from gallery ceilings using an adjustable tree surgeon’s harness. The surrounding surfaces served as a canvas, which she covered with crayon markings as she manoeuvred herself around. The piece was a rousing response to the male-dominated genres of Abstract Expressionism and Action painting, and was an integral chapter in Schneemann’s lifelong mission to “extend visual principles off the canvas”.
