Mysteries of the Pussies, 1998

1998–2010
video (color, sound)
7:43 min.

For this performative lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory participant. Together Schneemann and Lammi physically respond to images of the artist's cats. Schneemann relates her own research into historic obscenities connecting the various implications of "pussy." The performance was recorded in June 1998 and re-edited in 2010.

Documentary Pori Footage by Erkki Valli-Jaakola. Video edit with Trevor Shimizu, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

a black and white cat leaps off a balcony onto a ledge

overhead view of a black and white cat laying in front of two dead bunnies, a woman's figure is overlayed across the image

two women sit side by side, a white cloud is covering part of their legs

two women stand together, in the middle an image of a woman on a telephone with two cats overlays the other figures

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Mysteries of the Pussies, 1998

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Interior Scroll — The Cave, 1995

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Devour, 2003 – 2004

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Mysteries of the Pussies, 1998