REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
NEW & RESTORED FILMS & VIDEOS OF
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
NEW & RESTORED FILMS & VIDEOS OF
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
NEW & RESTORED FILMS & VIDEOS OF
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
NEW & RESTORED FILMS & VIDEOS OF
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Works
"The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972... With the exception of a dozen apples, flour, maple syrup, and eggs which I brought, all the cooking 'material,' utensils, and props were discovered in the jumble. Objects which functionally approximated actual cooking utensils were used: nails, hammers, an arrow, a flower pot, ball bearings, rags, a watering can. The cook's apron was a ripped mini skirt with which I covered my hair...."
This is a newly restored version of a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps, falls into and rolls through shreds of white printer's paper, creating a physicalized corporal collage.
Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work brings together "a range of images which contrast evanescent, fragile elements with violent, concussive, speeding fragments... political disasters, domestic intimacy, and ambiguous menace."
Writes Schneemann: "Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent..."
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 the atrocities of the Vietnam War. In an ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow," crusted branches, rope, foil and foam, an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/installation.
