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Carolee Schneemann
body as structural event
ART-OAT-SCH
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body as structural event
Carolee Schneemann
ART-OAT-SCH
body as structural event
Index Code:
ART-OAT-SCH
Orgin:
USA
Field Notes:
Performances films and hanging works suspend paint gestures and flesh in explicit spatial scores
Defining Moment:
Meat Joy and Interior Scroll where movement and reading turn the body into the literal support for narrative and mark making

Carolee Schneemann

( 
1939–2019
 )
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Schneemann built a world where the body acted as structure — gesture treated as architecture, intimacy rendered as form.

Her performances clarified how movement becomes spatial pressure, turning personal history into a disciplined visual force.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Carolee Schneemann’s work, this approach appears where bodily action and duration structure performance and film.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Carolee Schneemann’s work, this approach appears where bodily action and duration structure performance and film.
Surface & Structure
Surface and structure operate as a unified, interdependent system.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Space
Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.
Art
Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.
Conceptual Media
Media operates as a system for transmitting ideas rather than images.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

By Structural Focus

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Senga Nengudi
body as elastic form
Ann Hamilton
sensation as spatial field

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