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A dozen dancers rolling around in their underwear, rubbing raw chickens and fish on each other. No, it’s not some weird ‘60s porn, it’s a performance -- Abbi talks with the feminist artist behind the piece, Carolee Schneemann. Performance art like this can be a bit funny, a bit confusing, and definitely weird. Who better to get to the bottom of it than RuPaul? He and Abbi also watch a performance by Yoko Ono, where she sat alone on stage and invited members of the audience to cut her clothes off...

Also featuring: Thomas Lax

Carolee Schneemann. Meat Joy. 1964–2010. 16mm film transferred to video (color, sound), 6 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis. ©2017 Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Watch Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964)

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