Snows, 1967

Performance
Martinique Theater, New York, NY
January 21, 22, 27–29 and February 3–5, 1967
Performers: Shigeko Kubota, Tyrone Mitchell, Phoebe Neville, Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney, Peter Watts

Snows was built out of my anger, outrage, fury, and sorrow for the Vietnamese. The performance contained five films whose related content triggered juxtaposition of a winter environment and Vietnam atrocity images. Of all the films, Viet-Flakes was the heart and core of the piece: a source of confirmation and insistence from which movement and related imagery spilled onto the “snow-bound” audience.

Documentation from the 1967 performance, shot by Alphonse Shilling, was edited by Schneemann into the film Snows. The film was preserved in 2009 by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the NFPF.