Anthony McCall

Interview conducted by Lotte Johnson on October 27, 2023 in New York, NY

Anthony McCall is a UK-born visual artist based in New York City. He is best known for blending aspects of cinema, drawing, and sculpture in his Solid Light installations, which have been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Serpentine Gallery, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among others. McCall was Schneemann’s partner from 1971 to 1976. Their domestic life is at the heart of the film Kitch’s Last Meal (1973–78) and their separation informs the artist’s book ABC—We Print Anything—In the Cards (1976). McCall also documented Schneemann’s iconic performance of Interior Scroll at Women Here and Now (1975) and an early iteration of Up to and Including Her Limits (1973).

In this excerpt, McCall talks about the community around Beau Geste Press in Devon in the 1970s.