With a two-day series of events, Stanford University Libraries and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation will celebrate the Libraries’ recent digitization of Schneemann’s diaries alongside the acquisition of additional archival materials preserved by the Schneemann Foundation, building upon the original acquisition of the Carolee Schneemann Papers from the artist in 2012. 

This event listing is for a Discussion on Working with the Schneemann Archive with Katie Anania and Dejan Vasic on Tuesday, 10/21 from 2 - 4 pm in Hohbach Hall, Green Library, Room 123. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required in advance.

Dejan Vasić is an art historian and curator of late modern and contemporary art and moving image media, specializing in conceptual art and the transnational avant-garde. Vasić has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA since 2012, and he served on the Program Advisory Board of AICA-Serbia from 2020-2023. Vasić earned a BA and an MA from the University of Belgrade. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Katie Anania is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America (Yale, 2024). Her work draws upon environmental art history, feminism, and queer theory to articulate the ways in which ideas emerge from outside Western aesthetic canons. Anania earned a BA from the University of Nevada and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

See info and registration for the other "Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford" events:

• Viewing of the Carolee Schneemann Diaries, Monday, 10/20 from 2:30 - 4 pm
• Keynote and Panel Discussion with Peggy Phelan and Kenneth White on Monday, 10/20 from 5 - 7:30 pm
• Screening of Three Films (Viet-Flakes, Fuses, and Plumb Line) on Tuesday, 10/21 from 5 - 6:30 pm

About Carolee Schneemann:

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most influential artists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her pioneering work in a range of media—painting, film, video, dance and performance, installation, and the written word—is characterized by radical formal experimentation and critical investigations of subjectivity, the erotic and taboo, and the social construction of the female body.

Co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries, the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Accessing the Carolee Schneemann Papers at Stanford:

Researchers can access the physical Carolee Schneemann Papers, including the diaries, in the Special Collections and University Archives reading room at Stanford’s Cecil H. Green Library. More information on how to place requests and access the reading room is on the Libraries’ website at library.stanford.edu under “Explore Collections.” Online public access to the digitized diaries is available via Searchworks, the Libraries’ catalog.

If you have any questions, please reach out to akim6@stanford.edu!