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| Carolee Schneeman Body Collage & Devour July 11 -- 13 450 Harrison Avenue Storefront 63 Boston, MA 02118 T 617 357 7177 Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Friday 11 to 5 PM &, of course, by appointment |  still from Body Collage, 1967, 3:30 min, black & white, silent, DVD from 16 mm film Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), NY |
| Samson Projects continues Summer of '07 with two works: Body Collage and Devour by Carolee Schneeman. Devour is a single-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann writes that this work features "a range of images edited to contrast evanescent, fragile elements with violent, concussive, speeding fragments... political disasters, domestic intimacy, and ambiguous menace." In this dense montage, the title comes to stand for both the voraciously synthetic, head-on rush of contemporary media, and the corresponding, near-addictive impulse of its consumers. Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps, falls into and rolls through shreds of white printer's paper, creating a physicalized corporal collage. "My intention was not simply to collage my body (as an object), but to enact movement so that the collage image would be active, found, not predetermined or posed," writes Schneemann. Summer of '07 is a series of one week projects to memorialize the summer of the Son of Sam. For more information go to www.samsonprojects.com |
