Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

Wed 18 Jan 2023, 19:00

Join us for an evening hosted by art critic Hettie Judah, in conversation with contemporary artists Phoebe Boswell, Celia Hempton and Tai Shani.

Thu 5 Jan 2023, 19:00

What does it mean to write from, of and in relation to our bodies? Join us for an evening of discussion, hosted by Emily LaBarge, with Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Lauren Elkin and Juliet Jacques.

Wed 14 Dec 2022, 18:30

Join us to explore the resonances between the work of radical artist Carolee Schneemann and contemporary practitioners.

Fri 9 Dec 2022, 16:00

We are collaborating with Bishopsgate Institute to present this thought-provoking session exploring themes important to Carolee Schneemann’s work through original items from their special collections.

Thu 8 Dec 2022, 18:30

Join Chris Bayley for a special tour of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, exploring some of the exhibition’s highlights with a special focus on cats.

Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:00

Share elements of your work and enter in collective dialogue about what it means to create politically engaged feminist work. 

Sat 3 Dec 2022, 11:00

Explore manifesto as performance, read & think through examples together, and write your own against the patriarchy.

Thu 1 Dec 2022, 18:30

Join us for a screening of performances-to-camera from the performingborders archive.

Wed 30 Nov 2022, 18:30

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics has sparked loose, oblique, tender conversation necessitated by Schneemann’s own experiments with writing, text, and her proximity to the ‘New York School’ of poetry.

Tue 29 Nov 2022, 18:30

A British Sign Language tour of the exhibition Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics led by John Wilson, exclusively for D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors, highlighting key artworks, using BSL. 

Mon 21 Nov 2022, 18:30

In this session of the Feminist Duration Reading Group, we will read out loud from some of Schneemann’s writings, discussing them alongside texts by other artists engaged in feminist politics.

Sun 20 Nov 2022, 18:00

A Polyester x Barbican collaboration contextualising Carolee Schneemann’s work in the present day.

Thu 17 Nov 2022, 18:30

Join Lotte Johnson, curator of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, for a special tour of the exhibition focusing on some of the show’s highlights.

Tue 15 Nov 2022, 18:00

Join us after hours and get behind-the-scenes of Body Politics and Rebel Rebel at an evening of art, workshops, talks and drinks hosted in collaboration with trailblazing magazine and platform AZEEMA.

Thu 10 Nov 2022, 18:45

Join us for an evening of media art, moving images, demos, and a discussion with curators and filmmakers on ritual embodiment and the politics of gender.

Thu 3 Nov 2022, 18:30

Join scholar Flora Dunster for a special tour of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, focusing on some of the exhibition’s highlights.

Sat 29 Oct 2022 –Wed 4 Jan 2023

A relaxed viewing of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

Fri 28 Oct 2022, 18:45

Beginning with Schneemann’s own Viet-Flakes (1962-67), this programme brings together a selection of found footage films that critique and subvert the power of images produced by the media.

Thu 27 Oct 2022, 18:30

Join Schneemann scholar Kenneth White for a special tour of Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, focusing on some of the exhibition’s highlights.

Thu 20 Oct 2022, 18:45

This programme assembles work from the 1960s and 70s by women experimental filmmakers, contemporaries of Carolee Schneemann, taking as their subject the female body, sexuality and desire.