Carol Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits, 1974

Carol Schneeman is an American performance artist who had created many mixed media art during the 1970s and 1980s. One of her performance art pieces, Up to and Including Her Limits was performed at the University Art Museum in Berkeley in 1974. This event was a combination of performance, installation and video, which she began when the museum opened and ended when it closed. She hung naked from a swing, perpetually moving in space and drew and wrote on paper that she had installed on the floor and the wall around her.

She saw her marks as hypnotic tracking devices and an automatic writing or drawing that interpret her sensations and thoughts into words and images. She connected her artistic and physical processes in time to feelings, sensations and need that she could also show it to the public. She was interested in finding a way to make a monumental drawing with her body. Also, she was reacting to monumental and male dominated history of abstract expressionism and action painting. The video is recording of the artist actually making this drawing. 

Perry, Gillian, and Paul Wood. Themes in Contemporary Art. New Haven: Yale UP in Association with the Open University, 2004. Print.

Schneemann, Carolee. Carolee Schneemann. [New York?]: Max Hutchinson Gallery, 1982. Print.