Desirous Dreams: The feminist erotics of Rebecca Horn’s ‘Berlin Exercises in Nine Parts’ (1974–75)
For a period of 12 months during 1968 and 1969, Rebecca Horn was isolated in hospital with lung poisoning contracted…
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Locating the Lesbian Hand in Barbara Hammer’s Early Works
Barbara Hammer’s ‘Double Strength’ (1976) opens with a sequence of sepia photographs featuring Hammer and her then-partner, Terry Sendgraff, a…
In Defence of the Crazy Cat Lady: Carolee Schneemann’s Feline Muses
I came across Carolee Schneemann’s Infinity Kisses earlier this year during an insomniac’s trawl through YouTube, ten years after the…
Intimate Contact: Images of Suffering in the Work of Carolee Schneemann
“I live for the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann”.1 These words, written in a recent Facebook post by Lena…