Writing
Selected Texts by Carolee Schneemann

In 1963 to use my body as an extension of my painting­constructions was to challenge and threaten the psychic territorial power lines by which women were admitted to the Art Stud Club, so long as they behaved enough like the men.

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Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera, 1979

The texture of the work is contrapuntal. The movement is a set of object equivalences, consisting of three sorts

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Chromelodeon (4th Concretion), 1963

In the midst of developing my kinetic theater works, I began an erotic film

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Notes on Fuses, 1971

By the year 2000, no young woman artist will meet the determined resistance and constant undermining which I endured as a student.

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Women in the Year 2000, 1977

“Istory” has been my solution to the History/Herstory tug and pull. Whenever possible I use a neutral noun or pronoun instead of a specific gender

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Istory Of A Girl Pornographer, 1974

you are charming
but don’t ask us
to look at your films

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Text from Interior Scroll, 1975