Argos Arts, Brussels, Belgium
17th December 2022
On the occasion of the exhibition THE 1970s: _ dedicated to the Belgian audiovisual avant-garde of the 1970s, a̷r̷g̷o̷s̷ in collaboration with Bozar presents a conference followed by screenings. They highlight the inventiveness and individuality of the first Belgian and European artists who used video as a medium.
THE 1970s: _ restores the importance of this first generation. As part of this project, a large number of films and videos from that era were digitised so that they would not be lost. …
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Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
17th July 2015 - 14th August 2015
David HALL’s legacy as one of the founders of video art in the UK will be recognised in this upcoming exhibition featuring his pioneering work in sculpture, film and video. Curated by Stephen Partridge, the exhibition features major works from his estate. This exhibition takes as its nexus the ground-breaking installation, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse) (1989-1990) – a fifteen monitor video installation, first commissioned and exhibited for Video Positive ’89 at Tate Liverpool. …
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24th November 2019
Join pioneering video artists on the BBC as part of the programme ‘Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World Of Video Art’.
Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations hacked the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.
Jim argues that underpinning much of this work is an urge to question our modern (screen-based) world: “When artists get hold of cameras, …
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DJCAD University of Dundee, Online
31st January 2022
6.00pm-7.30pm
New artwork by Holly Davey produced for the commission ‘Encountering the unruly archives of contemporary art at DJCAD’ commissioned as part of the ‘What is a Living Archive? Curating the Unruly Archives of Contemporary Art’ research project led by Judit Bodor (Baxter Fellow, Curatorial Practice) and Adam Lockhart (Media Art Archivist and Lecturer) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
‘A Script for an Archive …’ is a recent body of work exploring – often marginalised – female voices within archival spaces. …
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Maynooth University, Ireland, Online
10:00 am - 10:50 am, 11th July 2021
Laura Leuzzi and Cinzia Cremona of REWIND Italia will present a paper in panel 21 entitled Processo per Stupro: A hidden documentary in the Archives of Italian State Television at the virtual conference Doing Women’s Film & Television History V. This will be about an example of activist documentary shot on video by a feminist collective of Italian women directors.
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Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow, UK
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, 23rd November 2019
This event celebrated the launch of European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s, a book that both recovers and reassesses the seminal contribution of women artists to the form and evolution of video. Editors Laura Leuzzi and Elaine Shemilt discussed some of the stories of these ground-breaking artists alongside key videos which were displayed in the library the following week.
Despite the fact that several women artists had been experimenting with the medium since the Seventies and Eighties, …
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Tate Modern, London, UK
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm, 24th September 2019
Join Professor Elaine Shemilt and Dr Laura Leuzzi in conversation with Professor Laura Mulvey about their new book aiming to recover the seminal contribution of women video artists
European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s is the main output of the eponymous research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
The book retraces some of the stories of early women artists’ video experimentation in Europe and their achievements, …
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Casa di Carlo Goldoni, Venice, Italy
5th September 2019 - 20th October 2019
The exhibition ‘Federica Marangoni and Elaine Shemilt. Parallel Dialogues Through Video and Time’ featured a selection of rare, historical video artworks and prints by the two European video pioneers; Federica Marangoni and Elaine Shemilt.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Dott.ssa Chiara Squarcina, Director of the Museo Casa di Carlo Goldoni ,and artists Elaine Shemilt and Federica Marangoni; it started its international tour from Casa di Carlo Goldoni, Venice and travelled to Threshold Artspace in Perth, …
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Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, 5th September 2019
The Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee were honoured to announce two events celebrating women video artists in Europe:
The publication ‘EWVA | European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’ will be introduced by Gabriella Belli, Director of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with artist and editor Elaine Shemilt in the presence of the artists, curators, academics and journalists.
Published by John Libbey Publishing, …
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Threshold Artspace at Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm, 8th March 2018
Part of Perth and Kinross Women’s Festival
Join us on the very International Women’s Day for a dose of cross-generational feminism and performance art. Experience works by European women video pioneers from 1970s and 1980s on the big screen. See a rare performance talk by Elaine Shemilt as she responds to her own work Doppelgänger (1979-81). Hear from Laura Leuzzi as she focuses on the performance art legacy of women artists. Enjoy live, …
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