CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion present Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises January 27 through April 1, 2012. A public reception to celebrate the exhibition opening will be held on Thursday, January 26, 6–7 pm. The reception will feature a gallery conversation with the artist, Carolee Schneemann, at 6 pm. A multidisciplinary artist, Carolee Schneemann transformed the definition of contemporary art, steering it toward a discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. Schneemann initially examined these issues through the medium of painting, but in the early 1960s she began employing other media—notably, performance and installation art and documentary photography—to explore suppressive taboos and the relationship between the individual human body and the social body. In the 1960s Schneemann became part of the “experimental avant-garde” that