Carolee Schneemann’s career began as a painter in the late 1950s. Born in Pennsylvania in 1939, she went on full scholarship to Bard College, where she noticed something insidious. While posing as a nude model for both her boyfriend’s work and her own self-portraits, she realized that male and female perceptions of the body were not aligned. As she made her way after college, moving from painting to painting-constructions, she noticed the implicit misogyny of the art world. Schneemann began to experiment with different media—music, poetry—still struggling to find an audience. In 1963 she made Eye Body, a film in which her naked body was used as an object along with many other objects, and was often marked up with chalk and grease. Meat Joy followed in 1964, and saw Schneemann playing with raw fish and chicken, sausage, etc. She called it an “erotic rite.” In an era known for experiment, Schneemann was revolutionary—she paved the way for feminist performance artists. This major survey of Schneemann’s work explores her transgressive, interdisciplinary art. —Elena Clavarino