Meat Joy (1964)

Meat Joy is an erotic rite excessive indulgent a celebration of flesh as material raw fish chicken sausages wet paint transparent plastic ropes brushes paper scrap Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic shifting and turning among tenderness wildness precision abandon qualities that could at any moment be sensual comic joyous repellent Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the sacred erotic This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression Paris Dennison Hall London and Judson Church New York City