EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s – Book Launch in Venice and TATE London

The book EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s is now published by John Libby Publishing:

EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s aims to recover and reassess the seminal contribution of women artists to early video art in Europe and more generally to the development and evolution of video as a then relatively new medium.

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 and has partially fallen into oblivion. Several women artists’ video works are today lost or have not yet been migrated to digital archival formats.
As a result many women artists’ seminal and pioneering experiments remain under researched and neither accessible nor critical writing upon them published.

EWVA aims to fill a fundamental gap in the history of video art and provide a useful tool to practitioners, artists and scholars as well as organisations (including curators, contemporary art museums, archives, foundations, media centres). It will inform and contribute to a future recovery and migration to digital format of women artists’ videotapes that are at risk of loss due to the obsolescence of the original formats.

EWVA was launched at the Media Art Festival in Rome in February 2015 with the publication launched at Museo Correr Venice on 05 September and Tate Modern on 24 September 2019.

The project Principal Investigator is Prof Elaine Shemilt, with Co Investigator Prof Stephen Partridge, Research Asstistant Dr Laura Leuzzi and Archivist Adam Lockhart and is based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Please see the following links for information about the research, how to obtain a copy of the book and related events:

publication – EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s

Film – Gabriella Belli director of the Foundation for the municipal museums of Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE).
(English language)

Film – Gabriella Belli director of the Foundation for the municipal museums of Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE).
(Italian langauge)

Film – Film – Parallel dialogues through video and time, 2019 with Elaine Shemilt and Federica Marangoni discussing their approaches to making their works:

Trailer

Interviews

Exhibition Opening 05.09.2019 Museo Casa di Carlo Goldoni, Venezia

please join us at the events listed here.

 

Elaine Shemilt, Laura Mulvey and Laura Leuzzi at the TATE Book Launch September 2019