Private Preformance

Artists such as Raushenberg would express their art publicly through performance theaters, by taking full advantage of technology through the use of projections in combination with actor's moment and gestures. This collaboration would soon bring artists and engineers to form the EAT community in 1967, intended on experimenting with art and technology. This group would soon produce unique works including Robert Whitman's Prune Flat.

Other artists, however, intended on keeping their work private, such as the American Painter Carolee Scheemann, as she conducted "private actions" including Eye Body in 1963, which were described as "bodily still lifes" that would anticipate body and performance art. It's a series of photographs where she wold apply herself with paint, glue, fur, feathers, garden snakes, glass, and plastic as she "re-created mythical goddess imagery, using her own body as the sculpture."

Eye Body,1963

Private media-based performances would later be preformed by multiple artists, including Bruce Nauman, who would preform his projects in isolation, such as Neon Templates of the Left Hand of the My Body Taken at Ten Inch Intervals in 1966, and From Hand to Mouth in 1967.

 Neon Templates of the Left Hand of the My Body Taken at Ten Inch Intervals, 1966

From Hand to Mouth,1967