Projects, Series I.
1960-1994
Container Summary: 8.5 lin. ft. 17 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series I contains typed and handwritten notes, drafts, performance instructions, drawings and some correspondence, pertaining
to approximately 70 of Schneemann's performance, film, book and exhibition projects. Most files offer a complete record of
a project's progression. Particularly well documented are "Snows," "Illinois Central (Transposed)," and "Cezanne: She was
a great painter." There is also material on Schneemann's controversial performances of "Meat Joy" and "Interior Scroll."
box 1, folder 2
Newspaper Event,
Dec 1962
box 1, folder 3
Environment for Sound and Motion,
1962
box 1, folder 7
Eye Body / A Concert of Dance #13,
Dec 1963
Scope and Contents
Documents pertaining to Eye Body, as well as two small photographs of Judson Dance Theater's A Concert of Dance #13.
box 1, folder 13-14
Water Light/Water Needle,
1966
box 2, folder 4-6
Illinois Central Transposed,
1968
box 2, folder 7
Naked Action Lecture,
1968
box 2, folder 8
Chicago Festival of Life,
1970
box 2, folder 9-10
Banana Hands and Partitions,
1970
box 3, folder 1-4
Parts of a Body House Book,
1972
box 3, folder 6
University of California, Berkeley,
1974
box 3, folder 8
Up to and Including Her Limits,
1974
box 3, folder 9
Cezanne: She was a Great Painter,
1975
box 4, folder 1-2
Cezanne: She was a Great Painter,
1975
box 4, folder 5
University of Wisconsin,
1976
box 5, folder 1
ABC We Print Anything,
1976
Scope and Contents note
Plus 4 versions of cards
box 11, folder 2
Fresh Blood: A Dream Morphology,
1981 (1986)
box 11, folder 5
University of Iowa,
1982-1983
box 12, folder 1
Early and Recent Work,
1983
box 12, folder 3
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe,
1984
box 12, folder 7
Randy Rosen Arts Association,
1986
box 12, folder 8
Perspectives of New Music,
1986
box 12, folder 10
Yellow Springs Institute,
1986
box 12, folder 12
Bottle in the Tree,
ca. 1986
box 13, folder 3
SUNY, Binghamton,
Apr 1988
box 13, folder 4
El Museo del Barrio,
1988
box 13, folder 6
Spirituality Conference,
Sep 1989
box 16, folder 5
Bush Artist Fellowships,
1992
box 16, folder 10
In the Spirit of Fluxus,
1992
box 17
Grant Applications and related material,
1970s-1994
box 17, folder 5
Linda Weintrab essay,
1994
box 17, folder 8
Ye Olde Sex Chart,
undated
box 17, folder 9
Grant applications,
1970s-1990s
Notes, Series II.
ca. 1959-1994
Container Summary: 4.5 lin. ft. 9 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series II has an extensive quantity of notebooks, address books, and notes typed or handwritten on single sheets. In particular,
the notebooks record Schneemann's day to day thoughts relating to projects and personal matters with notations such as lists,
reminders, schedules, ideas and finances, and have been richly embellished with drawings and sketches. The single sheets are
mostly typed, with a substantial portion recording Schneemann's dreams.
box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24
Dream and miscellaneous notes
Correspondence, Series III.
ca. 1959-1994
Container Summary: 9.5 lin. ft. 19 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series III includes exchanges of both a professional and personal nature between Schneemann and numerous artists, critics,
dealers, friends and lovers. Correspondents include: Stan Brakhage, Clayton Eshleman, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Jean Jacques
Lebel, Charlotte Moorman, her second husband Anthony McCall, her former live in lover Bruce McPherson, Claes Oldenburg, Miroslaw
Rogala, her first husband James Tenney, Edgard Varèse, Wolf Vostell and Carol Wikarska. Some files include printed ephemera,
especially by McCall and McPherson.
USA (chronological)
1960-1994
box 37, folder 8
Hadley, Ellen and Mary Moss
box 41, folder 1-9
McPherson, Bruce (and Jaimy Gordon)
box 42, folder 8
Sanford, Christy Sheffield
box 43, folder 1-5
Tenney, James (and Lauren Pratt)
box 44, folder 7
France/Belgium/Switzerland
Ephemera and objects, Series IV.
ca. 1959-1994
Container Summary: 3.5 lin. ft. 7 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series IV contains announcements, invitations, programs, and artists' books, and also includes drawings, mail art, and Fluxus
objects sent to Schneemann from Fluxus and mail artists, writers and others, such as Eric Andersen, Ay O (orange finger box),
Carol Bergé, Fletcher Copp, Philip Corner, Dwan Gallery (catalog for the exhibition "Boxes," February 2-26, 1964), John Giorno,
Bici Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Judy Malloy, Charlotte Moorman and Jerome Rothenberg. A substantial quantity of ephemera
created by Schneemann may also be found in this series.
box 47, folder 9
Hendricks; Jon, Geoff and Marten
box 47, folder 19
Lerner & Turner (conceptualist team)
box 48, folder 5
Moorman, Charlotte (NY avant-garde festival)
box 49, folder 3
Rauschenberg, Robert ("Open Score" instructions; see also "9 Evenings" project in EAT archive, acc. no. 940003)
box 50, folder 8
Miscellaneous greeting cards
box 51
Objects, includes (selected):
box 51
Ay-O. Orange finger box,
ca. early 1960s
box 51
Rothenberg, Jerome and Harris Lenowitz. "Gematria 27," autographed and dated by Rothenberg,
1977
box 51
Hendricks, Bici. "Language Box, Box Language,"
1966
box 51
Knowles, Alison. Cassette tape "Frijoles Canyon,"
1991
box 51
Tienhoven, Ronald v. "The Oxidizing Accumulator Book,"
1978
box 52
Dwan Gallery catalog for "Boxes,"
Feb. 2-29, 1964
box 52
Arnason, Jón Gunnar. "Cellophony,"
1972
box 52
Iannone, Dorothy. 2 sets of "Complimentary Cards,"
1971
box 52
Program cards for Dramatic Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan's performance of "Once,"
1965
Teaching and students' work, Series V.
1959-1992
Container Summary: 3 lin. ft. 6 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series V documents Schneemann's teaching and lecture activities with lecture notes, students' papers, photographs of student
performances and correspondence with universities. Arranged chronologically.
box 58
By date and miscellaneous,
1991-1992
Feminist research files, Series VI.
1970-1991
Container Summary: 1.25 lin. ft. 3 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series VI contains Schneemann's files on feminism consisting of clippings, photocopied articles, notes, and ephemera.
box 59, folder 1
The Artists-She, notes,
1970s
box 59, folder 2-5
Articles (photocopies),
ca. mid 1970-ca. 1989
box 60, folder 1
Articles (photocopies),
ca. 1990-1991
box 60, folder 2-3
Feminist Conference Workshop Readings (photocopies),
1991
box 60, folder 4
Missing gender clippings,
1971
Film and performance files, Series VII.
1960-1994
Container Summary: 1.25 lin. ft. 3 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series VII contains Schneemann's research files on film and performance and include clippings, photocopied articles, notes,
and ephemera.
box 62
Film notes and ephemera,
1960-1970
Other clippings, Series VIII.
ca. 1959-1994
Container Summary: .83 lin. ft. 2 boxes
Scope and Contents note
Series VIII contains topical research files of clippings, photocopied articles, notes, and ephemera.
box 65, folder 3
John Lennon / Yoko Ono (mostly upon his death)
box 65, folder 4-5
London miscellaneous and reviews,
1970s
box 66, folder 4-6
Miscellaneous,
1960s-1990s
Writings about or by Schneemann, Series IX.
ca. 1959-1994
Physical Description:
9 box(es)
4.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Contents note
Series IX contains manuscripts and published articles by various art critics, artists, literary figures, and students on subjects
about or relating to Schneemann's work, filed alphabetically by author. Some have been annotated by Schneemann or have photocopies
of letters from Schneemann with her comments. Authors include Gerald Burns, Kathy Constantinides, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow,
Udo Kultermann, Henry Sayre, Alan Sondheim, and Lynne Tillman. A separate box holds interviews with Schneemann in typescript
form, and two other boxes house journals and anthologies which contain writings by Schneemann. An oversize box includes large
materials from this series and previous series.
box 68, folder 5
Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, Winters
box 68, folder 9
Friedlander, Benjamin (and various)
box 71, folder 7
Semmel, Joan (and various)
box 72, folder 4
Ulster County Artist
Dec 77-Jan 78
box 72, folder 5
University of Texas-Austin (on Merce Cunningham)
box 72, folder 8
Woolger, Roger and Jennifer (Laughing Bear Prods.)
box 124*
Oversize ephemera and materials from other series
Performance albums, Series X.
1962-1989
Container Summary: 48 albums
Scope and Contents note
Series X consists of albums that document approximately 35 of Schneemann's performances and kinetic theater events. The albums
contain photographs, manuscript and printed material. Many of the photographs are original prints by Schneemann or by Peter
Moore and others who have achieved prominence as photographers of performance art. Some albums also include performance texts,
notes, clippings, and programs that complement material in Series I.
box 76
Album 1: '62 The Living Theatre Performance, "An Environment for Sounds and Motions" and "Poem for Chairs, Tables and Benches,"
1962
Scope and Contents note
Sidney, Illinois: 9 8x10 and 4 5x7 in a hand-painted album.
box 77
Album 2: A Concert of Dance #3 and #4, Judson Church,
1963
Scope and Contents note
25 photos by Robert McElroy and Al Giese, some smaller than 8x10 and 3 of which are color; program; and photocopied announcement
and review in a hand-painted album.
box 78
Album 3: Dance by 5, Judson Church: "Lateral Splay"
Scope and Contents note
Original performance (10 8x10 by Peter Moore); "Lateral Splay" St. Mark's Revival (13 color, 10 b/w 5x7 or smaller); and "Queen's
Dog" (15 8x10 by Giese). Also includes a slide of an original drawing; 2 Judson announcements; performance instructions for
both pieces; 3 pp. of notes; and photocopies of drawings.
box 79
Album 4: Chromelodeon (4th Concretion),
1963
Scope and Contents note
25 photographs, 8x10, by Giese; 3 5x7; 8 5x7 color; 1 3x5 color; and 1 review clipping.
box 80
Album 5: Eye Body,
1963
Scope and Contents note
29 8x10, 28 of which are by Erró and 1 by Tenney; 1 photo-collage; 2 contact sheets; 20 slides; 6 slides of drawings; and
2 pp. of notes.
box 81
Album 6: Meat Joy, Paris,
1964
Scope and Contents note
26 8x10 by Harold Chapman, F. Massal and Cheney.
box 82
Album 7: Meat Joy, New York,
1964
Scope and Contents note
68 8x10 by Harvey Zucker, Moore, Giese, T. Ray-Jones and Manfred Schroeder; 1 photocopy of an 8x10; 3 5x7; and program.
box 83
Album 8: Meat Joy
Scope and Contents note
49 slides; copies of 2 drawings, announcement and performance instructions; many small prints, including 1 3x5 color; and
contact sheet clippings.
box 84
Album 9: Meat Joy
Scope and Contents note
30 small color prints. Photographer unidentified.
box 85
Album 10: Several performances,
1963-1967
Scope and Contents note
Snug Harbor, 1967; Push & Pull, 1965; Noise Bodies, 1965; Loose-leaf, 1963. Includes NY avant-garde festival programs, review
of the festival, notes and performance instructions for "Push and Pull," 2 8x10, and 2 5x7 of "Loose Leaf" with performance
instructions.
box 86
Album 11: Noise Bodies,
1965
Scope and Contents note
15 8x10 by Moore, Ted Wester and Charlotte Victoria; program; and performance notes (4 sheets).
box 87
Album 12: Several performances,
1966
Scope and Contents note
Ghost Rev, 1966: 9 8x10 by Moore and Wester, 3 5x7 or smaller and announcement. "2nd Thermo Couple" and "V" (Tenney): 4 8x10
by Moore. and "Site" (Robert Morris), 1966: 2 8x10 by Hans Namuth, 8 3x4 color, and 7 slides.
box 88
Album 13: Water Light/Water Needle,
1966
Scope and Contents note
48 8x10 many by Moore and some by Victoria; 2 5x7; 5 3x5 color; and a program.
box 89
Album 14: Water Light/Water Needle, St. Mark's in the Bowery and Havermyer Estate
Scope and Contents note
29 8x10 mostly by Victoria; 34 3x5; 4 5x7; 22 small color; 5 slides; and photocopies of reviews and drawings.
box 90
Album 15: Snows,
1967
Scope and Contents note
63 8x10 mostly by Buggiani and Victoria, and also some by A.V. Sobolewski, Wester and Moore; 3 5x7; 12 3x5; and a program.
box 91
Album 16: Snows,
1967
Scope and Contents note
35 3x5 color by Victoria and Herbert Migdoll; 80 slides, some by Migdoll; contact sheets; 1 color transparency; 3x5 cards
with addresses; performance instructions; 4 photocopied drawings; and 3 pp. of notes.
box 92
Album 17: Manipulations-Ordeals,
1967
Scope and Contents note
8 8x10, 3 by Moore (one of which is cropped) and 2 by Victoria; "Manipulations" announcement; program and 1 pp. of notes for
"Ordeals"; and Schneemann manuscript for
Aspen Magazine n. 6A.
box 93
Album 18: Round House, London,
1967
Scope and Contents note
26 8x10, most by Michael Boone and some by John Haynes, Leena Komppa and Jennifer Pike; 7 5x7; 1 10x12; notes on 5 3x5 cards;
clipping; program; and performance instructions.
box 94
Album 19: Illinois Central (Transposed),
1968
Scope and Contents note
52 8x10, many by Wester and a few by Holbrook, Victoria and Migdoll; and photocopy of "The Chicago Saga of Carolee Schneemann"
by Peter Holbrook.
box 95
Album 20: Mail Art, London
Scope and Contents note
includes photocopies and photos of some of Schneemann's mail art/ephemera, postcards, and a collage, 15 items (See also ephemera
files).
box 96
Album 21: Colby College,
1968
Scope and Contents note
7 8x10 by Lyhte and MacKay, announcement, and notes, some of which are photocopies.
box 97
Album 22: Intermedia,
1968
Scope and Contents note
10 8x10, notebook with sketches and text, announcements, press release, and bios.
box 98
Album 23: Naked Action Lecture, 1968 and "Expansions," 1969,
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
12 8x10, many by Massal and Sidney Zamochnick; announcements, one with notes and sketch; performance instructions; sheet of
notes; and photocopied review.
box 99
Album 24: Montreal Expo, Viet-Flakes,
1968
Scope and Contents note
16 8x10 by Shunk-Kender, and notes (10 items).
box 100
Album 25: Body Collage,
1968
Scope and Contents note
15 8x10 by Michael Benedikt, 1 5x7, 3 3x5, and 1 color xerox.
box 101
Album 26: Thames Crawling
Scope and Contents note
2 8x10 with 4 images on each; 1 contact photo-collage; photocopied sketches and collages; International Underground Film Festival
schedule book of notes and sketches (originally listed under Köln, 1970); substantial quantity of other notes and sketches;
performance instructions; and an announcement.
box 102
Album 27: Köln,
1970
Scope and Contents note
9 8x10, most by Balthasar Burkhard, 5 5x7, and many photocopied notes and sketches.
box 103
Album 28: Aggression for Couples, London,
1971
Scope and Contents note
22 8x10, many are hand-painted and some have collage elements; 57 3x5 or smaller; and statement.
box 104
Album 29: Schlaget Auf 1970, and Ices Strip 1971,
1970-1971
Scope and Contents note
12 8x10; 1 3x5; contact collage; announcement; notes; performance instructions; and many photocopied notes and sketches.
box 105
Album 30: Cooking with Apes, Sweden,
1973
Scope and Contents note
13 8x10; 1 5x7; 14 color; 20 slides; Nutida Musik 2 1973/74; announcement; performance instructions; notes; sketches; clippings;
7 letters, most with Susanne Valentin of Fylkingen.
box 106
Album 31: Interior Scroll,
Sep 1975
Scope and Contents note
includes 13 8x10; 2 5x7; contact sheets; and notes.
box 107
Album 32: Up to and Including Her Limits,
1974-1975
Scope and Contents note
70 8x10 by Gianfranco Gorgoni, Alan Power, Anthony McCall, Peter Moore, Tal Streeter, Carol Wikarska, Gwenn Thomas, A. Tannenbaum,
Shelley Farkas, Jill Lynne, Susan Weiley, Mary Harding, Terry Slotkin, Henrik Gaard, Diane Nilsen, and Susan Hiller; 6 slides;
1 color xerox; and announcements.
box 108
Album 33: Up to and Including Her Limits,
1974
Scope and Contents note
2 8x10 by Shelley Farkas and C. Mary Harding; 1 color xerox; program; installation plan; clippings; announcement; notes and
small sketches, some of which are photocopied; and corresp. with Axel Beyer and Jill Lynne (photographer).
box 109
Album 34: Up to and Including Her Limits,
1974
Scope and Contents note
Includes 4 8x10 and 4 5x7 by Shelley Farkas and Mary Harding (some are possibly laser prints), photocopies of sketches and
notes, and photocopied clipping.
box 110
Album 35: Moon in a Tree, Cornell,
1976
Scope and Contents note
includes 2 color copies, notes, photocopied articles, letter from Walker Art Center, exhibition catalog from Minneapolis Institute
of the Arts.
box 111
Album 36: Cornell
Scope and Contents note
7 8x10 by Farkas and Haller, 4 color xeroxes, 1 clipping, and 3 pp. notes.
box 112
Album 37: Missing Precedents,
1973
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes, text, images.
box 113
Album 38: Homerunmuse,
1977
Scope and Contents note
24 8x10 by Farkas and Bill Thompson, 96 color slides, 3 color xeroxes, score, notes, announcements, and photocopied clippings.
box 114
Album 39: Fresh Blood,
1981-1983
Scope and Contents note
32 8x10, some by Ginerva Portlock, Leigh Williams and James Brown; 1 5x7; 6 3x5; 44 3x5 color; 27 color slides; numerous sketches
and notes; performance instructions; 5 color copies of color slides; poster; bibliography and image credits; and statement.
box 115
Album 40: ABC We Print Anything,
1977
Scope and Contents note
20 8x10, some by Haller and Jürgen Vogdt; 13 5x7 or smaller; 3 color xeroxes; performance description; a few sketches; and
corresp. to Irena (?).
box 116
Album 41: C. Schneemann and Her Work
Scope and Contents note
25 8x10; 16 5x7 or smaller; 9 small color; 1 color xerox; and 1 photo-calendar page of Schneemann working.
box 117
Album 42: Early Work
Scope and Contents note
26 8x10; 29 5x7 or smaller; 50 color; 3 small color xeroxes; 1 color polaroid; and 1 contact sheet.
box 118
Album 43: Early Work
Scope and Contents note
19 8x10; 16 5x7 or smaller; 1 small color; 96 color slides.
box 119
Album 44: Reproduction Prints - Early Drawings, Watercolors
Scope and Contents note
53 8x10, 8 smaller b/w.
box 120
Album 45: Teaching/Student Performance Art,
1979-1989
Scope and Contents note
At UCLA, Ohio State, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Univ. of Massachusetts. Photocopy prints of student drawings; 2 contact sheets
from Kent State; 85 slides; and 10 smaller b/w by Colin Klein.
box 121
Album 46: Infinity Kisses (with Cluny),
1987
Scope and Contents note
1 8x10, 40 slides, a color xerox, and performance article.
box 122
Album 47: Cat Scan,
1987
Scope and Contents note
Fliers, text, 1 8x10 and 18 smaller by Plauto; 3 color xeroxes; 3 3x5 color; 4 5x7 color; performance instructions; notes;
program; and 2 announcements.
box 123
Album 48: Dirty Pictures,
1980
Scope and Contents note
Contact sheets; reviews; fliers; notes; text; scores; 16 8x10 by Lisa Kahane; and 18 color slides.
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