Fresh Blood (1983)

Vulvic puns jokes and ruminations on the meanings of menstrual blood activate a range of taboos surrounding cultural notions of the feminine as a metaphoric battle ground of the body and of language itself Schneemann naked and in red pajamas merged her physical movements within a continuous slide projection The projected images weave into archeology of unconscious forms pulled to the surface of conscious recognition This videotape is a compilation of several performances edited by Schneemann