Pioneering Women in Video Art – Talk – Glasgow Women’s Library –

Pioneering Women in Video Art – Talk – Glasgow Women’s Library –

“European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s brings a nearly forgotten moment in the history of women’s art practice back to life, vividly evoking its special sense of excitement and promise that still resonates across time.” Laura Mulvey

Join Professor Elaine Shemilt, Malcolm Dickson, Marilyn Hooykaas and Dr Laura Leuzzi in conversation discussing some of the stories of pioneering women artists of the 1970s and 80s.

This event celebrates the launch of the publication European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s, which both recovers and reassesses the seminal contribution of women artists to the form and evolution of video.

A programme of related videos will be on display for the following week.

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, featuring chapters on fundamental case studies of early video artworks, themes, genres and geographical areas.

Despite the fact that several women artists had been experimenting with the medium since the Seventies and Eighties, women artists’ contribution to video art is still marginalised. Many of these resulting video works are today lost or have not yet been migrated to digital archival formats. Taking its title from an AHRC funded research project based in DJAD (University of Dundee) the book retraces some of the pioneering stories of women artists’ video experimentation in Europe, featuring case studies of early video artworks, themes, genres and geographical areas.

The publication aims to contribute to a reassessment of women artists involvement in early video art and strength their profiles and identities within the art historical canon.

Authors include: Jon Blackwood, Maeve Connolly, Cinzia Cremona, Sean Cubitt, Malcolm Dickson, Catherine Elwes, Slavko Kazunko, Marika Kumicz, Laura Leuzzi, Adam Lockhart, Stephen Partridge, Lorella Scacco, Elaine Shemilt, Emile Shemilt. The book will be opened by an Introduction by Laura Leuzzi, with a Preface by Laura Mulvey and a Foreword by Siegfried Zielinski.

Saturday 23rd November at 2 – 3.30pm

Booking – this event is open to all and is free to attend.
Please book below (you will be taken through the shopping cart but no charge will be made) or you can call on 0141 550 2267.
If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.

Please see the publication EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s at this link

And find out more about The Glasgow Women’s Library at this link

 

Image: Lydia Schouten, The lone ranger, lost in the jungle of erotic desire, 1981, still from video. Credit: Courtesy of the artist and EWVA