Performance artist Carolee Schneemann dies aged 79

US artist confronted taboos around sex and gender with videos and performances featuring raw meat, naked bodies and snakes
The artist Carolee Schneemann, who fearlessly confronted taboos around sex and gender, has died aged 79.Schneemann is perhaps best known for her 1964 film Meat Joy, an orgiastic hymn to the human body that featured underwear-clad dancers writhing around together with raw meat and mackerel. It was one of many groundbreaking works created during a 60-year career, in which Schn