Schneemann, Carolee
Schneemann, Carolee,
1939–2019, American multimedia artist, b. Fox Chase, Pa., B.A. Bard College, 1959, M.F.A. Univ. of Illinois, 1961. Her art encompassed numerous genres, including painting, installation, live performance, and film, and deals with gender politics, sexuality, and the role of feminism in overcoming social taboos. Interested in action painting and assemblage, she created environments in the early 1960s in which she posed for a series of photographs titled Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera (1963). A theater work and film, Meat Joy (1964), featured partially clad figures interacting with paint, sausages, raw chickens, and each other. In 1964 Schneemann joined the Judson Dance TheaterJudson Dance Theater,a loose collective of dancers, musicians, and visual artists that produced an influential series of avant-garde performance pieces at Judson Memorial Church in New York City's Greenwich Village between 1962 and 1964.
..... Click the link for more information. in New York City, where she took part in happeningshappening,
an artistic event of a theatrical nature, but usually improvised spontaneously without the framework of a plot. The term originated with the creation and performance in 1959 of Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts.
..... Click the link for more information. and other avant-garde performances. Her Autobiographical Trilogy, consisting of the films Fuses (1967), Plumb Line (1971), and Kitch's Last Meal (1978), intimately explores her life with her partners. Interior Scroll (1975), a performance piece she performed in the nude, involved painting her body and then reading from a scroll that she extracted from her vagina. Schneemann's written works include Cezanne, She Was a Great Painter (1975), More than Meat Joy (1979, 1997), Early and Recent Work (1983), and Erotics (2002).