Precarious, 2009

multi-channel video projection installation

Precarious was commissioned by Tate Liverpool in 2009 and shown at Galerie Lelong in 2016. As the gallery press release described: "A motorized mirror system rotates the imagery 360 degrees to physically encapsulate the viewer. Precarious was motivated by Schneemann’s research into the torture of animals, including photographs of cats in cages captured for Chinese food, as well as sequences of animals and prisoners dancing in captivity. Fleeting sequences in which a bird, a bear, prisoners, and Schneemann dancing are edited together within the shifting frames of cages and the confinement of the video format itself."