Meat Joy

Meat Joy

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic...

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Vulva's School

Vulva's School

A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual...

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Fuses

Fuses

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat...

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Americana I Ching Apple Pie

Americana I Ching Apple Pie

Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original...

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Viet Flakes

Viet Flakes

Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers...

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Up To and Including Her Limits

Up To and Including Her Limits

Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and...

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Plumb Line

Plumb Line

The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a...

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Devour

Devour

Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work...

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Souvenir of Lebanon

Souvenir of Lebanon

Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless...

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ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We print...

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Kitch's Last Meal

Kitch's Last Meal

Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years. The moving...

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Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of...

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Snows

Snows

This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over...

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Body Collage

Body Collage

Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps,...

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Infinity Kisses - The Movie

Infinity Kisses - The Movie

Infinity Kisses - The Movie completes Schneemann's exploration of human and feline sensual communication. It incorporates extracts of the original...

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Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a...

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Mysteries of the Pussies

Mysteries of the Pussies

For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory...

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Catscan

Catscan

Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of...

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Fresh Blood

Fresh Blood

Vulvic puns, jokes and ruminations on the meanings of menstrual blood activate a range of taboos surrounding cultural notions of the feminine as a...

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Four Recent Installations

Four Recent Installations

In all Schneemann's montages, films and performances, there is an insistent repetition of disparate motifs — within each work and from work to work...

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