Papers, Poisons & Power: Schneemann’s Experiments with Eco-Feminist Media

This reading and interactive talk by feminist art historian Katie Anania will trace several themes in eco-feminist art before 1970. To begin, Anania will explore how industrially produced paper is a tool and medium that connects the twentieth century with the present. By tracing some project prototypes from the Schneemann archive and in the Women’s Studio Workshop’s collection, a few questions will become possible: How has feminist art been instrumental in revealing the ways that different media forms participate in violent and toxic supply chains? What kinds of written, typed, and printed media tend to generate or consolidate historical narratives, and what leftovers and effluvia remain accessible only through time-based media or audio histories? And how might a feminist archival ethos help to recover and hold onto what is lost? 

Copies of Anania’s book will be available for purchase on site. A reception and book signing will follow. 

Host or Publisher Women's Studio Workshop