Body Collage

Carolee Schneemann

1967, 4:12 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video

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

Carolee Schneemann

2003-04, 8:40 min, color, sound

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."

Illinois Central Transposed

Carolee Schneemann

1968-69, 18:15 min, color, 16 mm film on video

A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed Illinois landscape to the devastation in Vietnam. Writes Schneemann: "I think of this...

Snows

Carolee Schneemann

1967-2009, 20:24 min, color and b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video

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.

Viet-Flakes

Carolee Schneemann

1962-67, 8:31 min, toned b&w, 16 mm film on HD video

Viet-Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to "travel" within the photographs, producing a volatile animation.

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

Carolee Schneemann

1966, 11:13 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

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 score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys. One of two video documents of this early and influential performance, this version is...