ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards(1977)

ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards is a 1977 video documentation of a performance work filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas at De Appel in Amsterdam. Carolee Schneemann created 315 numbered cards combining text and photographs drawn from her domestic life, exploring her shifting relationships during a period of separation from artist Anthony McCall and growing closeness to publisher Bruce McPherson. The cards—intimate yet formally structured—capture the dynamic, paradoxical, and humorous dimensions of romantic entanglement. Schneemann's conceptual approach transforms personal experience into a measured visual and textual archive, blending documentation with performance to examine how relationships evolve and contradict themselves. The work stands as both a personal record and a broader meditation on connection and change.