Body Collage (1967)

Body Collage is a visceral movementevent from 1967 in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses and then runs leaps falls into and rolls through shreds of white printers paper creating a physicalized corporal collage My intention was not simply to collage my body as an object but to enact movement so that the collage image would be active found not predetermined or posed writes Schneemann