Carolee Schneemann will be at P•P•O•W on December 2 to discuss her current dual exhibition (photo courtesy P•P•O•W Gallery)
Who: Carolee Schneemann
What: Artist talk in conjunction with two-gallery show
Where: P•P•O•W Gallery, 535 West 22nd St., third floor,
When: Friday, December 2, free, 7:00
Why: Multidisciplinary artist and activist Carolee Schneemann will add an exclamation point to her two-part show, “Further Evidence — Exhibit A” at P•P•O•W and “Further Evidence — Exhibit B” at Galerie Lelong, with “Further Evidence — Exhibit C,” a discussion at P•P•O•W on December 2 at 7:00 with art history and visual studies professor Soyoung Yoon. For more than fifty years, the provocative, groundbreaking Schneemann has been exploring gender identity and the female body through film, photography, and performance, often involving nudity. At P•P•O•W, “Further Evidence — Exhibit A” is highlighted by the 1995-96 multimedia installation “Known/Unknown: Plague Column,” which references a seventeenth-century Viennese column that blamed the bubonic plague on a witch; in her exhibition catalog essay, Yoon writes, “Is there a continuity between this representation of the plague and our more recent imagination about cancer, a link between witch hunts and the current warfare model of cancer treatment?” Also on view at P•P•O•W is “Fresh Blood — A Dream Morphology” from 1981-87, inspired by the form of the letter “V.” Meanwhile, at Galerie Lelong, “Further Evidence — Exhibit B” consists of 1983’s “Precarious,” about the torture of animals, the 2005 collage suite “Caged Cats,” and 2003-4’s “Devour,” which compares domesticity to disaster. Both exhibitions will remain on view through December 3.