http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t1589j No online items Guide to the Carolee Schneemann Papers M1892 Franz Kunst Department of Special Collections and University Archives 2016 Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford 94305-6064 [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Guide to the Carolee Schneemann M1892 1 Papers M1892 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: Carolee Schneemann papers Identifier/Call Number: M1892 Physical Description: 128 Linear Feet226 boxes (189 manuscript boxes, 31 flat boxes, 12 cartons, 4 oversize folders) Date (inclusive): circa 1954-2012 Abstract: The papers of Carolee Schneemann chronicle in detail her work as an artist, film maker, writer, art historian, feminist, and teacher. Immediate Source of Acquisition A portion of this collection was purchased by Stanford University Libraries in 2012; the remainder was a gift. Conditions Governing Access Collection is open for research use except for the diaries in Subseries 5.3. which are restricted until 5 years after Schneemann's death. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy. Conditions Governing Use While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Preferred Citation [identification of item], Carolee Schneemann papers (M1892). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Related Materials The Getty Research Institute also holds a significant archive of Schneemann material, mostly devoted to her earlier years: http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/950001/950001.xml Scope and Contents Artist Carolee Schneemann was born October 12, 1939 in rural Pennsylvania. Her art, which primarily involves performance, film, painting, and installation, has largely focused on sexuality, gender, and the body, and she is considered part of the first generation of feminist artists. Schneemann's work emerged from the 1950s-60s avant-garde surrounding Fluxus, Judson Hall and New York's dance, poetry, new music and happening scenes, but it quickly staked out a distinct territory of its own. Schneemann has stated that she considers what she does as an extension of painting, only freed from the canvas. Using her body as a collage element, she explores themes including physicality, dimensionality, and kinetics. Among the works most central to the establishment of her reputation for the uncompromising and iconoclastic are the following three: Meat Joy (1964) is a performance involving eight partially clothed figures moving in materials including wet paint, sausage, raw fish and chicken, and scraps of paper. It was first performed in Europe and was later filmed and photographed as performed by Schneemann's Kinetic Theater group at Judson Memorial Church. Fuses (1964-1967) was Schneemann's exploration of heterosexual sex from a female perspective, using footage of her lovemaking with partner James Tenney which was then treated and edited in various ways, superimposing natural scenes and painting in a collage-like effect. Interior Scroll (1975) was first performed in East Hampton, New York and Colorado's Telluride, and featured Schneemann solo, first striking various figure modeling "action poses," then reading from her book Cézanne, She Was a Great Painter, and finally drawing forth from her vagina a three-foot scroll from which she read aloud. Although these works have been invoked, recalled, and reinterpreted many times by Schneemann since their creation, this collection focuses more on her more recent projects. Her own writing and notes dominate, but there is a significant amount of correspondence, including printed and annotated email exchanges. One of the main series is devoted to project files, which begin around 1990. These have not been physically arranged, and in most cases folder titles were transcribed directly from the original. Printed material about Schneemann includes exhibit and event publicity as well as reviews and criticism. Of the many photographs and slides, most document her art and its evolution, as do the audiovisual media. There are also lecture and workshop notes, scrapbooks, research files, and book preparation material, especially for Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle edited by Kristine Stiles. There is even a small number of costume/environments as used in her performances. Guide to the Carolee Schneemann M1892 2 Papers M1892 Series 1. Project files bulk Series 1. Project files bulk Scope and Contents The Project files series consists of Schneemann's day-to-day correspondence concerning various projects in the 1990s and 2000s. These projects include exhibitions, performances, lectures, publishing, teaching and workshops, film screenings, and other endeavors. Although the majority is correspondence (annotated by CS, especially with printed email), there are also notes (including concepts and ideas for art), reviews, interviews, contracts, itineraries, and drafts of programs and catalogs. Most of the communication is with curators and gallery staff, her assistants, other artists/collaborators, students, academics, journalists, and friends, and involves negotiation, logistics, and other planning. There is no over all chronological order to the series, but the original order per box has been retained. Folder titles and contents were also kept intact, with some names normalized. Many folders have other unrelated material, and some titles may not represent contents or date ranges. box 36, folder 6 Location One box 36, folder 7 Bruce McPherson - Jamie Gordon box 36, folder 8 Robert Kelly Celebration Anthology 2011-05 box 36, folder 9 Iowa 2005 box 37, folder 1 Iowa 2011 box 37, folder 2 WCA [Women's Caucus for Art] 2011-02 box 37, folder 3 Francesco Conz box 37, folder 4 Vanishing art box 37, folder 5 Portland 2011-02 box 37, folder 6 Lawrence Brose 2010 box 37, folder 7 Taipei - Cameron box 37, folder 8 Warhol Museum 2006-05 box 37, folder 9 Gallery Akinci 2005-02 box 37, folder 10 Tenney 2005 box 37, folder 11 Over with 2005-2006 box 37, folder 12 Follow up 2004 box 37, folder 13 Anne de Villepoix box 38, folder 1 Grants 2002 box 30, folder 16 Grief box 38, folder 2 Paintings ICI box 38, folder 3 Feminisms & Its Discontents 2002 box 38, folder 4 Steve Baker box 38, folder 5 UK box 38, folder 6 Contacts WACBIZ box 38, folder 7 Archive box 38, folder 9 RISD Crisis Response show box 38, folder 8 Whitney 1999 box 38, folder 10 Child drawings 2005 box 38, folder 11 Elga Wimmer box 38, folder 12 Grant applications 1995-1996 box 42, folder 1 1960s performance images box 42, folder 2-4 Miroslav Rogala ICS, Instructions Per Second box 44, folder 3 Alan March Folder box 44, folder 11 Interviews box 44, folder 12 Butterfly Madonna box 45, folder 1 By C.S. [New York memories etc.] box 45, folder 2 Work statements box 45, folder 3 Section II [chapter typescript] box 45, folder 4 Mixed notes box 45, folder 6 Fluxus 90s Walkert box 45, folder 7 California 1991-1997 box 46, folder 1-2 articles, coursepacks box 46, folder 3 Jen Barker notes 2005 box 46, folder 4 WACBIZ/Suzanne Hilleary (Writers & Artists Cooperative) Guide to the Carolee Schneemann M1892 3 Papers M1892 Series 1. Project files bulk box 46, folder 5 Bruce Martin box 46, folder 6 Texts - Reference [some by CS] box 46, folder 7 DC 2008/Hirshorn 2004-5 box 46, folder 8 Go Away 2009 box 46, folder 9 Reina Sofia box 46, folder 10 misc. exhibit material 2006 box 47, folder 1 Consignment box 47, folder 2 Agreements - Permissions Long term box 47, folder 3 Photo permissions box 47, folder 4 Artist's Rights Society box 47, folder 5 Marielle Nitoslawska/Brakhage screening permission 2004-2005 box 47, folder 6 Sagamie [Montreal] box 47, folder 7 Cliff Eyland box 47, folder 8 Ottawa 2005-01 box 47, Canada folder 9-11 box 47, P.P.O.W. folder 12-13 box 48, folder 1 Sensorium [Boston] 2006 box 48, folder 2 Finland box 48, folder 3 London box 48, folder 4-5 MIT box 48, folder 6 Recommendations/CS appointments box 48, folder 7 Under way 2007-2009 box 48, folder 8 Marjorie Keller box 48, folder 9 Jack Tilton gallery box 49, folder 1 Grey Art Gallery box 49, folder 2 Writing Women box 49, folder 3 Iceland 2006-11 box 49, folder 4 Guggy [Guggenheim] 2005 box 49, folder 5 Eye Body edition 2004 box 49, folder 6 Venice 2007 box 49, folder 7 Buffalo CEPA - MOCCA/Ontario etc. 2007 box 49, folder 8-9 CEPA catalog mockups "Split Decision" box 50, folder 1 Bern 2008-12 box 50, folder 2 Norway 2008-12 box 50, folder 3 Denver Film Festival 2008 box 50, folder 4 Milwaukee 2008 box 50, folder 5 Pierre Menaud gallery 2007-10 box 50, folder 6 Rutgers 2006 box 50, folder 7 WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution MOCA 2007-2008 box 50, folder 8 Berlin 2008-12 box 50, folder 10 misc. correspondence etc. 2007-2008 box 50, folder 11 Donnell Library - film box 51, folder 1 Known/Unknown 1996 box 51, folder 2 Film brochure layouts box 51, folder 3 MOCA Hall of Mirrors [reviews] box 51, folder 4 Body As Membrane Denmark/Finland 1996 box 51, folder 5 Vienna 1995 box 51, folder 6 Canada/Western Front/Pacific Cinematique/UBC 1995 box 51, folder 7 Mortal Coils 1994 box 51, folder 8 Michelle Rhodes masters thesis "Performance Art As Therapy Practice" box 62, folder 5 Rosanna Chiessi/Kent State 1990 box 62, folder 6 Emily/Italy/Paris 1990 box 62, folder 7 Key Gallery 1992 box 62, folder 8 London 1992 box 62, folder 9 Turner-Krull 1993 box 62, folder 10 Exhibitions 1993 Guide to the Carolee Schneemann M1892 4 Papers M1892 Series 1.