Water Light / Water Needle featured performers including dancers, painters, actors, and writers. Performers in this project would move freely, coming out of the lake, move along the ropes suspended between trees on the lakeside, and hanging on the ropes. They skillfully and rhythmically move within the ropes until encountering one another, where they then maintain physical contact, demonstrating the particular materiality of their individual bodies. Schneemann saw the ropes as “flesh extensions” and encouraged the participants to feel physical connectedness to one another. As with much of Schneemann’s work, the body is the surface on which a discussion between “body as subject” and “body as object” takes place.