Monday, January 9, 2012

Carolee Schneemann- NYC

".....The dominance of the sex-negative imagination fuels itself on the denial of the body and its denigration, its split from the spirit, its split from nature.- the whole construct as really techno-metaphysics where the godhead is so strangely devitalized, his form itself is a crucified body that no longer speaks or acts or moves but is fuelled with genital suppression. You worship this dead genital figuration with it's exclusionary propriety of being 'male'...so that the authenticating source of vitality is a distanced male god, a Holy Ghost, a crucified phallus. And all the female attributed and completely distorted so you get this demented mythology where the god is born from a virgin (!) of from a gods forehead of from and underarm ....anything that can warp the female primacy! "
" Not only do we have to live out this male schizophrenia culturally, but we have to live it out in our personal lives. First the truth is sacrificed, then your next. It's a mess-it's sad and wasteful. And the patterns of male self-aggrandizement*, low self-esteem and castration fantasies fulfil themselves in endless adventures and penetrations- then denial of what they have built up with a partner that might become "coherent."


*self-aggrandizement
n
the act of increasing one's own power, importance, etc., esp in an aggressive or ruthless manner
self-aggrandizing  adj