Interior Scroll The Cave (1995)

In a vast underground cave Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina The scroll embodies the primacy of an extended visual line shaped as both concept and action The extracted text merges critical theory with the body as a source of knowledge Beattys camera moves from the naked group actions into closeups of the unraveling text