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Over Front Cover Introduction: An art of the precarious Aaron Levy Edited Transcript: Master class with Carolee Schneemann Jordyn Feingold, Erica Levin, Aaron Levy, Emma Pfeiffer, Justin Reinsberg, Nicole Ripka, David Wilks, and Elliot Wolf sales rep: 1st ofa date: artist: cust: control: job #: Back Cover Front Cover rel #: Introduction: An art of the precarious there’s always these sort of tensions, of reference, but it’s a very succinct little Aaron Levy essay concerning the violence that has always been historically embedded against cats and women, the demonization of them both in early history and For many years, Carolee Schneemann’s work has foregrounded the relationship how that has its residual aspects still. between the artist’s body and the social body. Her art, her relationships, and her institutional negotiations have all foregrounded the fundamental relationship EL: I’ve been wondering about the repetition that happens in Mysteries of between the individual and socio-cultural conditions. She has enabled us at the Pussies, with the Finnish echo of what you say in English. Of course that Slought to think in similar terms, and to negotiate our position, identity, and probably has something to do with the context in which it was made, but for an practice in relation to the city and beyond. English audience there’s also something that I found really moving about how it takes these terrible accounts and turns them into something unrecognizable The word precariousness is often understood in terms of vulnerability, and if you don’t speak the language. There’s something really interesting about how the condition of being dependent on unknown conditions and uncertain that works in the piece that I found myself thinking about a lot afterwards. developments. Today, a wide range of artists and philosophers employ this word as a metaphor for our times, as a way to talk about our contingency CS: That’s one of the layers. Also, the Finnish audience didn’t know what was and vulnerability as human beings in the face of the psychological challenges, happening, they had never seen anything like that. We had no rehearsal. And socio-economic inequalities, and political tensions that define our communities. the sound is edited from completely separate sources. I told Teija Lammi that How is it that so many are vulnerable and precarious today? Why are some we would be glancing at these images of the cats projected behind us and to born into precariousness and others not? Why do certain lives count more than physically find some way to incorporate what we saw. She was the librarian of others? What agency do we have to mitigate the severity of these conditions? the Porin Taidemuseo, which is a place like this place, a library in a museum. Schneemann has asked these questions of herself and others for many years. She was wearing black glasses, with her hair all rolled up. I said, “I need help with translation and then if we could do some improvised movement together...” The title of this publication, Utterly Precarious, builds upon Schneemann’s She said yes, she would try. And then, “What should I wear?” I said, “Oh, just 2009 installation about movement in captivity. Alarmed by the Tate Liverpool’s something black.” I open the door at six o’clock and there’s Brigitte Bardot in request for a title for the installation, she consulted the Oxford English this little black slinky thing, this beautiful blonde hair, and the glasses are gone, Dictionary and discovered the phrase “life after the Second World War in and huge blue eyes. Wow! There are many gifts in uncertainty. Uncertainty is Liverpool was precarious.” Schneemann’s situation over the years has been really important to me. a precarious one too. The life of an artist entails the constant negotiation of precarious circumstances and conditions in order to practice and survive. One of the things from the cancer sequence that I couldn’t possibly go into last Schneemann is in the paradoxical position of being one of the great artistic night is that I refused traditional treatment because I came to the loft one day pioneers of our time, an icon, yet one who over the course of 30 years has lived and there were two postcards pressed together, one on top of the other. They without fixed income, health insurance, institutional affiliation, etc. Having lived were both from dear friends that I had introduced and were traveling. One had and practiced without the stability that some take for granted, her life and work stalactites coming down and making these double mounds. And the other card has in this way always constituted an art of the precarious. pressed against it was of two mountains in the Alps. I looked at these peaks and these pinnacles and they’re saying, “Keep it! Don’t do that treatment!” They This publication features a filmed conversation between Schneemann and were absolute guidance against every medical story that I was being told. So first-year undergraduate students in a History of Art course at the University I’m walking with my boyfriend in the woods in the back of the house and I’ve of Pennsylvania that opens with a discussion about precariousness. In the already told him, “I’m not doing it — A radical masectomy, long term radiation, months preceding the conversation, the students and I explored Schneemann’s six weeks of chemo.” And they’ve told me that I’m committing suicide if I don’t work and the question of how to write and conduct scholarship about do it and I’ll die. And we’re walking in the woods and he says, “You’re deviating, contemporary art history in the present. We engaged her work, writing and the path is up here. Where are you going? You’re deviating.” I love that he said correspondence, and learned why Lucy Lippard has referred to Schneemann’s “deviating.” I walked forward and there was this huge owl feather that was right life and work as a “mythological revolution,” one that has radically transformed in front of my feet. I said, “Okay, okay, deviate, deviate, deviate.” That’s what the conditions of artistic practice by directly engaging the public in the I needed. You can’t teach anybody else that and think they’ll be okay, and go production of the work. We hope that this publication is as enabling and out and pray for feathers... What do they say on television, “It works for me?” transformative for you as our conversation with Carolee has been for us. There’s some motto, somebody says that, right, some ad? “Works for me.” 2 15 sales rep: 1st ofa date: artist: cust: control: job #: Page 2 Page 15 rel #: Well, who knows where that all came from – nobody wants to see it, nobody Edited Transcript: Master class with Carolee Schneemann knows about it, nobody cares about it. Oh, but the beautiful thing is that we Jordyn Feingold, Erica Levin, Aaron Levy, Emma Pfeiffer, Justin Reinsberg, are filming – we filmed the fire in the foundry that melts the original form. And Nicole Ripka, David Wilks, and Elliot Wolf it is like these huge bloody blossoms. That video is projected on the sculpture and also on the floor, so as a viewer you are standing in the center of these Jordyn Feingold: We have been talking about the theme of precariousness, beautiful, bloody blossoms of fire. and for us this space is very precarious. But we want to know what this space signifies to you, as you were here as a child and are here now. AL: Is your process an intuitive one? Is that the way you would explain it? Carolee Schneemann: Well, it is evolving in terms of all the potential forms and CS: The intuitive is everything. You know intuitive is analytic, it is cultural, it is what I would call the morphologies of form. That is always a thematic for how I intellectual. It is everything that you know that you can make available. Intuition organize thinking about my work and bringing it into material realm. There is a is everything that is going to save your soul and forward your sensibility. charm for me to be back here with all the grotesque things that my dad thought I should know about when I was 8 or 9. JF: After spending a semester studying your works, watching your films, and reading Correspondence Course and other texts, it is a special experience to be We didn’t live in the city, we traveled in to visit this museum. I pretty much here to listen to your anecdotes and stories. What does it mean to you that we remember that wall of fetuses and deformed infant shapes in formaldehyde. have spent an entire semester studying you? I think that awareness of taboos and suppressed elements of the body were always available for me to think about. And I’m back and it is quite luxurious, all CS: Oh, it is outrageous! It’s huge! I can’t imagine! How did this happen? I think these decrepit bones. I am still all alone and anonymous in this same old house, shifting out the kitty litter and wondering why there is nothing to eat in the refrigerator, and hurrying Elliot Wolf: We were wondering when you felt that you had a practice or an to get the bus to New York to teach or edit. Then all this is happening. There is identity as an artist. Was there a certain work that marked this emergence as an something ghostly about it.
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