EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’ screening at ‘BNL Media Art Festival’, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome

EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s‘ Screening at ‘BNL Media Art Festival’, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome13th-17th April – 2016. This selection includes artworks by some of the most influential European women artists who were video pioneers in the 1970s and 1980s. A broad range of topics and approaches to video are being shown. These include the experimentation to explore the possibilities of the medium, video installation, multi-media and performance. The selected themes address: the critic to broadcast TV, identity, the relationship with their body, ephemerality of Life, perception, pregnancy and maternity, the opposition between Nature and Civilisation, how women are represented by the media, the role of women in society.
Featured artists: Anna Valeria Borsari, Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Madelon Hooykaas, Živa Kraus, Federica Marangoni, Elaine Shemilt, Annegret Soltau, Elsa Stansfield.

List of Works

Živa Kraus, The Motovun Tape, 1976, 4m 18s (Courtesy of the Artist and Archivio Cavallino, Venezia)

Anna Valeria Borsari, Autoritratto in una stanza, documentario/ Self-portrait in a room, documentary, 1977, 9m (Courtesy of the Artist and Archivio Cavallino, Venezia)

Federica Marangoni, The Box of Life, 1979, 16 mm film (transferred to video), 11m 55s

Madelon Hooykaas/Elsa Stansfield, Split Seconds, 1979, video, 10m 37s

Annegret Soltau, Schwanger sein II, excerpt: phase three, 1979-1980, 2m 2s.

Elaine Shemilt, Women Soldiers, 1984, video, 6m

Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Transit, 1986, video, 5m 50s.