Unit 6, Vision Building 20 Greenmarket, Dundee, DD1 4QB
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 9th November 2017
Performance, Presentation & Discussion Event: A Polyphonic Essay On Memory
Alexandra Ross, Gayle Meikle & Laura Leuzzi
Presented as part of NEON Festival.
Drawing from the REWIND Artists Video Archive and research project EWVA, a Polyphonic Essay on Memory was a performance, presentation and discussion on the theme of memory generated through artworks selected from the REWIND Artists Video Archive and research project EWVA (European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s). …
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Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, 20th September 2017
Screening & Discussion Panel: The Time Is Right For…
Curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart
As part of Summerhall’s 2017 Edinburgh Festival Programme, EWVA in collaboration with Summerhall presented a selection of early women’s video work that had been investigated during the project.
Artists began to work with video from the late 1960s as a more accessible alternative to film. Although many of these artists are well known today, …
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Summerhall: Basement II Gallery 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
2nd August 2017 - 24th September 2017
Exhibition: The Time Is Right For…
Curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart
As part of Summerhall’s 2017 Edinburgh Festival Programme, EWVA in collaboration with Summerhall presented a selection of early women’s video work that had been investigated during the project.
Artists began to work with video from the late 1960s as a more accessible alternative to film. Although many of these artists are well known today, there are several women artists who experimented with video in the early years who have since been forgotten or marginalised. …
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Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
17th December 2016 - 15th January 2017
Curated by Adam Lockhart & Cooper Gallery, DJCAD
Featuring work by: David Critchley, Stephen Partridge, David Hall, Judith Goddard, Elaine Shemilt, George Barber.
Curated by Cooper Gallery DJCAD, University of Dundee in collaboration with Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum and organised in partnership with the British Council, Phase Two of CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland focuses on the history, development and current conditions of artists’ moving image works to further explore the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, …
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Visual Research Centre, Centrespace, Dundee Contemporary Arts
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm, 9th December 2016
Video Screening: Self/Portraits: Relating Narratives
Curated by Laura Leuzzi, Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiou.
With the participation of the artists Cinzia Cremona, Lydia Sc
houten and Elaine Shemilt. Readings by Diana Georgiou.
Video support by Adam Lockhart.
Self/Portraits: Relating Narratives was the sequel to the performative screening Autoritratti which took place at the Showroom Gallery (London) in 2015.
This screening wove together the visual narratives of 12 international women artists or collectives who have worked around questions of identity and self-determination, …
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Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London
6:00 pm, 21st October 2016
Curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart
At the 2016 edition of ‘Visions in the Nunnery’ at Bow Arts (London), British video pioneer Elaine Shemilt re-enactacted live for the first time her seminal video performance Doppelgänger (1979-1981). Doppelgänger was recovered during the AHRC funded research project REWIND (DJCAD, University of Dundee), led by Prof Stephen Partridge, in 2012.
Doppelgänger is one of the only two surviving videos of Shemilt’s early experimentation with the medium. …
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Summerhall, Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm, 28th September 2016
Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s principal investigator, Prof Stephen Partridge, led by REWIND archivist Adam Lockhart. This event focused on APG artists who participated in television and particularly from a Scottish perspective. The screening programme featured the rarely seen STV production ‘Locations Edinburgh, Festival 1971’ including APG artists Stuart Brisley, David Hall, Graham Stevens and Jeffrey Shaw. Other work shown was ‘Stooky Bill TV’ by David Hall (1990), ‘Cumbrae Clyde’ by John Latham (1984) and ‘Buried Alive’ from ‘Public Face Private Eye’ Series (1988) by Ian Breakwell. …
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Via Stilicone 10, 20154 Milano, Italia
19th July 2016 - 17th October 2016
Anna Valeria Borsari presents her works ‘Il testimone’, 1976-77; ‘Autoritratto in una stanza’, 1977 and ‘Attraversarsi’, 1977.
Il testimone (The Witness) 8mm film transferred to video, 1976-77, 3’33”. The artist walks down a portico and makes a point-of-view shot of what she sees: a seated man, initially at a distance, gradually gets closer. He has dark glasses, and for an instant the artist is reflected in their lenses as she shoots, asking him to bear witness to having seen her. …
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Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma, Italia
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm, 19th April 2016
Italy was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This early experimentation attracted artists from all over the world and laid the foundation for video art. Edited by Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge, REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy aims to bring the Italian seminal early video experimentation back into the international spotlight and provide a unique resource for research and study.
REWINDItalia, Early Video Art in Italy included seminal essays, …
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Via Stilicone 10, 20154 Milano, Italia
19th April 2016 - 18th July 2016
Luca Maria Patella presented ‘Grammatica dissolvente – Gazzùff! Avventure & cultura, 1974-75’.
Among the first to experiment with multimedia and the filmic possibilities of videotape, Luca Maria Patella presented a single work here. It can be traced back to what the artist calls “self-documentations in progress,” featuring the simultaneous presence of different media. The four sequences of which it is composed constitute a sort of anthology of practices: an excerpt from the unfinished film ‘Lu’ capa tella’ …
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