Carolee Schneeman in Residence

Description:

Carolee Schneemann’s residency at Western Front centred on the development of a performative video interview based on a lecture presented in the Grand Luxe Hall. Staged as part of the Women in View festival, the event offered a retrospective of Schneemann’s painting, performance, and installation practice spanning three decades, and included a screening of Imagining Her Erotics: Carolee Schneemann (1993), and a conversation with Judy Radul. 

The lecture concluded with a performance of Vulva’s School (1995), in which Schneemann used two animal hand puppets to stage an exchange deconstructing sexual bias in French semiotics and psychoanalytic theory. 

Excerpts from Schneemann’s lecture were brought together in the video document Including Her Limits (1995), edited by Shawn Chappelle and produced by Eric Metcalfe. 

During the residency, Schneemann also presented a parallel lecture at the University of British Columbia, and a screening at Pacific Cinematheque (now The Cinematheque) featuring her films Fuses (1965), Plumb Line (1972), and Vesper’s Stampede to my Holy Mouth (1992). 

Program:

Jan 29, 1995

Performative lecture by Carolee Schneeman

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

8:00 p.m.

Feb 2, 1995

Lecture by Carolee Schneeman

Lasserre 107, University of British Columbia

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Feb 2, 1995

Screening by Carolee Schneemann

The Cinematheque

7:30 p.m.

Presented with support from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.