How do performance artists use clothes? For female artists such as Carolee Schneemann and Heidi Bucher, costumes were part of their explorations of sexual liberation, consent and emancipation. Their legacy is evident in today’s female artists and even singer Lady Gaga. “Schneemann was working with her body as a political act, and a form of sexual liberation,” Lotte Johnson, curator of a new exhibition on Schneemann at the Barbican in London, tells Helen Barrett @helenmodette. “In art, women are often objectified and cast as muses. She’s reclaiming that role, bringing her own body alive.’”⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to read the story in full.⁠ ⁠ 📸: Schneemann in her studio on West 29th Street, New York, 1962 © Photograph by Leo Choplin/Carolee Schneemann Foundation/DACS⁠