Carolee Schneemann | Seething Under Snow

Hales is delighted to announce that The Carolee Schneemann Foundation and EAI are offering three programs of film and video available for free screening online through 30 January 2024, with additional Works by Ellen Cantor, Cheryl Donegan, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Joan Jonas, Andrew Lampert, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, and Hannah Wilke.

 

Carolee Schneemann's films-including Fuses (1964-67), Viet-Flakes (1965), Plumb Line (1971)-are heralded as classics of the postwar avant-garde film movement in their radical deconstruction of the role of the performer, their presentation of the female body, and their blurring of the distinctions between documentary and fiction. They subvert and transcend the tropes of conventional cinema and defy expectations of the avant-garde film through their presentation of the personal, the ecstatic, and pressing social issues. When she shifted from celluloid to video in the late 1970s, Schneemann continued to push against the expectations of the medium with single-channel video works and more elaborate video installations, from Up To and Including Her Limits (1973-76) to Devour