Carolee Schneemann
Birthday: 1939-10-12
Place of Birth: Fox Chase/ Burholme, PA
Biography: Carolee Schneemann, a groundbreaking performance and multidisciplinary artist, has used film and video since the 1960s. Shattering taboos and redefining the notion of the erotic, she confronts sexuality, gender, and the social construction of the female body. Her seminal performances of the 1970s were as transgressive as they were influential. Schneemann continues to provoke, as she explores female sexuality in relation to art-making, ritual, and culture.
Movies
Fuses
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partne...
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Split Decision
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower...
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Loving
In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the ner...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feat...
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Meat Joy
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, gal...
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ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by ...
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Ask the Goddess
Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by resp...
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Americana I Ching Apple Pie
Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London...
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Grimace
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artist...
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Up To and Including Her Limits
Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneema...
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Women of Vision
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The wome...
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Heads
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so....
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Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, th...
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Times For
An unfulfilled man renders himself to the unrealized sensuality of four women. In his drifting searc...
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Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgard...
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No. 4
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dia...
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Plumb Line
The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits ...
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of ...
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Cat's Cradle
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in...
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Emma's Dilemma
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of...
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Masculinity/Femininity
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, se...
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Rebel Women: The Great Art Fight Back
Out of the tumult and fervour of the late 1960s emerged a generation of artists who set out to start...
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Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus
A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the ...
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