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Carolee Schneemann

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"Interior Scroll, (1975/77)"      I think Carolee Schneemann's "Interior Scroll" piece has got to be the most darnest piece of art I've ever came across. It was disturbingly intriguing. In this piece, Carolee uses her own body to symbolize gender politics and empowerment and in her own words, calls "the movement" of interior thought to exterior signification," where this piece of art gave visual forms to her notion of vulvic space. For this artwork, she is on a table, naked and she has painted her face and body with mud and like this, is she slowly taking out this scroll from her vagina while reading out the manifesto printed on it. I personally believe her performance with her reciting the manifesto was very symbolic in terms that she perceived her vagina as not only a birth passage, but the source of knowledge. Schneemann's interest was so high in the vulvic space because she thought of is as this passageway  "from the vi