For almost fifty years, legendary artist Carolee Schneemann has created art that relentlessly investigates ideas of gender, power, and identity, querying the qualities and parameters of an individual life. Among the first generation of women artists to address representations of the female body, her living legacy includes a vast array of films, performances, installations and literary texts. These artistic explorations have been matched by an intense, even obsessive, desire to document her life and work. As a result, Schneemann has amassed an extraordinary personal archive that not only reflects a moment in the history of art, but also testifies to the artist’s refusal to disappear from that history.

The Carolee Schneemann Project, currently in-progress, is a feature-length film that experiments with the formal parameters of documentary while pursuing the same issues of representation, memory and history that pervade the artist’s work. The film assumes a textured corporeality through the different formats used by Nitoslawska, and through its integration of materials, including the Super 8 and 16 mm film used by the artist herself. Its structure – organic, and almost musically rhythmic – embraces Schneemann’s desire to explore knowledge embodied in a world mediated by the virtual image.