Carolee Schneemann est une artiste multidisciplinaire qui a bouleversé la définition même de l'art, notamment en ce qui a trait au discours sur le corps, la sexualité et la technologie. Ses vidéos, ses films, ses peintures, ses photographies, ses performances et ses installations ont été présentés au Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, au New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) et en Europe. En 2002, MIT Press publiait son livre Imaging Her Erotics - Essays, Interviews, Projects; parmi ses livres précédemment parus, signalons More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Work and Selected Writings (1979, 1997). Elle vit à Montréal et à Springtown (New York).
Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present performance photographs from the 1970's by Carolee Schneemann at Carolina Nitsch Project Room in Chelsea, New York. This exhibition has been organized in collaboration with Elisabeth Ross Wingate on the occasion of several jointly published editions with the artist.
A pioneer of performance art, Schneemann's multidisciplinary work also includes assemblage, photography, film, video, and installation, while consistently referring to painting. Schneemann was one of the first artists to use her body to animate the relationship between the lived experience and the imagination. "Prior to Schneemann, the female body in art was mute and functioned almost exclusively as a mirror of masculine desire." (1)
Schneemann's work has had a huge influence on multiple generations of you...
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