Imaging Her Erotics : Essays, Interviews, Projects

by Carolee Schneemann

• ISBN13: 9780262692977
• ISBN10: 026269297X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists, such as Salvador Dali and Yves Klein, had used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use her body to animate the relationship between the world of lived experience and the imagination, as well as issues of the erotic, the sacred, and the taboo. In the 1960s, her work prefigured the feminist movement's sexual self-assertion for women, and by the mid-1970s, her work anticipated the field of women's studies and its critique of patriarchal institutions. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to experiment with virtual environments. Imaging Her Eroticsintegrates images from Schneemann's works in painting, collage, drawing, and video sculptures with written material drawn from the artist's journals, dream diaries, essays, and lectures. Encompassing four decades of her work, it demonstrates her profound influence on artists in all media. An opening essay by Kristine Stiles presents Schneemann's major themes and places her work in a historical context. Among other topics, the book covers Schneemann's response to the widespread use by artists of the ideas of theoreticians such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan; her relationship to male artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Morris, and Claes Oldenburg; and reminiscences about her friends Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, and Hannah Wilke. The book also contains essays by Jay Murphy and David Levi-Strauss and interviews with the artist by Kate Haug, Linda Montano, and Aviva Rahmani.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	viii
KRISTINE STILES
THE PAINTER AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REAL TIME	2	(18)
PROTO-FEMINIST BODY
INTERVIEW WITH KATE HAUG	20	(26)
FROM THE NOTEBOOKS	46	(6)
"MAXIMUS AT GLOUCESTER": A VISIT TO CHARLES OLSON	52	(3)
EYE BODY: 36 TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONS	55	(5)
MEAT JOY	60	(14)
SNOWS	74	(16)
REVIEW BY ROBERT C. MORGAN
SOLANAS IN A SEA OF MEN	90	(4)
TWO LONDON LETTERS	94	(3)
VALIS	97	(1)
NOTES FROM FIRST VIEWING OF A FILM BY DUSALA MAKAVEJEV: W.R. MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM	98	(6)
SEXUAL PARAMETERS	104	(8)
INTERVIEW WITH ND	112	(18)
FEMINIST EROTIC ICONOGRAPHY
INTERVIEW WITH LINDA MONTANO	130	(6)
ISTORY OF A GIRL PORNOGRAPHER	136	(4)
AMERICANA I CHING APPLE PIE	140	(4)
CÉZANNE, SHE WAS A GREAT PAINTER: UNBROKEN WORDS TO WOMEN-SEXUALITY CREATIVITY LANGUAGE ART ISTORY	144	(2)
WOMEN IN THE YEAR 2000	146	(5)
INTERIOR SCROLL	151	(11)
UP TO AND INCLUDING HER LIMITS	162	(4)
DIRTY PICTURES	166	(10)
ANTI-DEMETER: THE MORE I GIVE THE MORE YOU STEAL	176	(4)
HOMERUNMUSE	180	(6)
THE LEBANON SERIES	186	(10)
INTERVIEW WITH CARL HEY WARD	196	(14)
CENSORSHIP
ON CENSORSHIP: INTERVIEW WITH AVIVA RAHMANI	210	(6)
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: A FEMINIST PORNOGRAPHER IN MOSCOW	216	(10)
DREAM MORPHOLOGIES
JAY MURPHY
ASSIMILATING THE UNASSIMILABLE: CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN IN RELATION TO ANTONIN ARTAUD	226	(8)
FRESH BLOOD-A DREAM MORPHOLOGY	234	(1)
VENUS VECTORS	234	(20)
CYCLADIC IMPRINTS	254	(8)
ROBERT RILEY INFINITY KISSES	262	(4)
VIDEO ROCKS	266	(4)
CATS, DREAMS, AND INTERIOR KNOWLEDGE-CAT SCAN: INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM PETERSON	270	(6)
HOMAGE TO ANA MEN DIETA	276	(2)
MORTAL COILS	278	(8)
PLAGUE COLUMN: KNOWN/UNKNOWN REVIEW BY ELEANOR HEARTNEY	286	(12)
VULVA'S MORPHIA	298	(10)
VESPERS POOL	308	(8)
REVIEW BY THOMAS MCEVILLEY
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
LOVE RIDES ARISTOTLE THROUGH THE AUDIENCE: BODY, IMAGE, AND IDEA IN THE WORK OF CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN	316	(12)
ON MY DESK	328	(1)
VIDEOS/FILMOGRAPHY	329	(1)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	330	(8)
INDEX	338