"Creation is the result of activity and not thinking. It is activity that generates ideas which, themselves, give rise to other ones. It is a process in the course of which decisive choices are made in a mysterious way. It is the automatism with which the farmer ploughs the fields, a phenomenon that
Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic re
Video, installation and performance artist Pipilotti Rist has been experimenting with new media since 1986. Rist uses multimedia to create enveloping sensory experiences for viewers. Her approach to making resonates with her multi-valent view of art. Rist told Frieze Magazine, "Art’s task is to c