Dundee Contemporary Arts
24th November 2012 - 1st December 2012
This exhibition celebrated the publication of REWIND – British Artists’ Video in the 1970s and 1980s, a new book celebrating the first two decades of artists’ works in video. Key works were presented from the REWIND Artists’ Video Collection in a short-run exhibition that allowed visitors to view these works and to browse this important new book.
Works by David Hall, Kevin Atherton, Tina Keane, Elaine Shemilt, David Critchley, David Larcher and Stephen Partridge were shown. …
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Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, Milan, Italy
6th November 2012 - 1st December 2012
REWIND in collaboration with Careof presented an exhibition/expose of UK artists from the REWIND collection at DOCVA, Milan.
Works featured were:
David Critchley, Pieces I Never Did (3 Screen Version), 1979, 31’3’’
Peter Donebauer, Entering, 1974, 6’50’’
The Duvet Brothers, Multiscreen, 1986/2008, 23’38’’
John Latham, Nmutter, 1984, 6’55’’
Stephen Partridge, Interrun, 1989, 6’14’’
Elaine Shemilt, Doppelgänger, 1979-1981, 9’11’’
Television Interventions, …
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Tate Modern, Southbank, London
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm, 25th September 2012
Exhuming the lost history of the invention of video art in the UK, Rewind has emerged as a crucial research project. The Rewind team has remastered and archived important early single channel and installation works, interviewed artists, collected ephemera, curated exhibitions, distributed DVDs, developed conferences and built a strong web presence at www.rewind.ac.uk. This event launched the book resulting from the project, ‘Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s’, edited by Sean Cubitt and Stephen Partridge and published by John Libbey. …
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Big Red Self Storage, London, SE14 6QP
28th July 2012 - 29th July 2012
Scratch the Surplus was a two-day screening event organised by Re-make and part of Deptford X 2012. The programme was made up of one-off, on the hour screenings. Saturday saw work selected by practitioners who are engaged in distribution within specific UK film and video collections including REWIND, Dundee, The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins, LUX and Women’s Art Library, MAKE. Sunday’s programme of artist moving image work, moved from scratch video of the 1980s to new video work that delves into the vastness of the internet. …
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Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London
16th March 2012 - 22nd April 2012
Ambika P3 presented a major solo exhibition by David Hall, the influential pioneer of video art, featuring a new commission ‘1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’ 1972-2012, as well as re staging two seminal early works. This timely exhibition vividly heralded the end of analogue TV in the UK as London finally switched to digital in April 2012.
Exhibited Works: 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) 1972-2012 Progressive Recession 1974 TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces): The Installation 1971/2006
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MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma
19th April 2012 - 20th April 2012
The research project REWINDItalia held its first Symposium ‘REWINDItalia: Videoart in Italy 1968-1982’ in Rome on April 19th-20th 2012, at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art. The research project was funded by the AHRC and the event was supported by the Di.Co.Spe, the Department of Communication & Spectacle of University Roma Three and DJCAD, University of Dundee.
REWINDItalia stems from an awareness of the importance of the experimental video work produced in Italy in the ‘70s and 80’s and aims to renew the international interest on Italian artists, …
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Stills, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
3rd August 2012 - 28th October 2012
Stills’ Film Lounge presented a selection of artists’ film and video in response to the varied themes within James Casebere’s series of works. The programme included the first UK screening of Casebere’s ‘An Udder Orientation / A Film’, made in 1979, and brought together artworks by Mineo Aayamaguchi, Doug Aubrey, George Barber, David Critchley, Claire Fowler, Jeanette Ginslov and Mike Stubbs. From received fantasies of the ‘American Dream’ to sober and provocative political musings, these works collectively explore the torment behind a notion that is ‘America’ …
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Dundee Contemporary Arts
5th November 2010 - 19th November 2010
Influential 1980s video artists, the Duvet Brothers, performed together for the first time in over 20 years. From 1984-1989, The Duvet Brothers,AKA Rik Lander and Peter Boyd Maclean, were pioneering Scratch Video artists who produced innovative music, pop videos, commercials, and TV title sequences as well as becoming known for their riotous live performances. The duo performed a renowned show they originally presented at the Limelight Club in Soho in September 1986, which became an installation and ran until 19th November. …
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Tate Britian, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
8th May 2010 - 27th June 2010
Tate Britain in association with Lux presented a selection of work from the REWIND + PLAY DVD recently released by Lux and REWIND.
Projection: In Two Minds (two-screen version), Kevin Atherton (1978, 25 min.); Circling, Peter Donebauer (1975, 12 min.); Kensington Gore, Catherine Elwes (1981, 15 min.); Time Spent, Judith Goddard (1981, 12 min.); Clapping Songs, Tina Keane (1979, 6 min.); Monitor, Stephen Partridge (1975, 6 min.)
Monitor: TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces), …
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Streetlevel Photoworks, Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD
16th April 2010 - 30th May 2010
Lost and Found was an exhibition which reconstructed some early video installations from 2 key events in Glasgow in the 70s and 80s: Video towards Defining an Aesthetic (Third Eye Centre, 1976) and EventSpace 1 (Transmission, 1986). Presented in collaboration with the REWIND project in Dundee, it included works by Tony Sinden, Stephen Partridge, Stephen Littman, Pictorial Heroes, Zoe Redman and Kevin Atherton.
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