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Meat Joy (1964)

Performance, body art

This kinetic theater piece revolves around eight, scantily dressed, men and women happily dancing and moving about each other creating what seems like human sculptures.  Then, as the performance goes on, they are handed pieces of raw meat which they rub all over their bodies.  The men and women never lose their joyful expressions as they become smeared with paper, paint, and raw meat.

The piece was first performed in Paris at the Free Expression Festival.