Venice, Museo Correr – EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s- Book Launch

We are delighted to announce the work of Elaine Shemilt in two events hosted by The Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia, celebrating women video artists in Europe:

5 September 2019, at midday (mezzogiorno).
‘EWVA | European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’
Book launch – Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco 52, Venice

The publication ‘EWVA | European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’ will be introduced by Gabriella Belli, Director of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with artist Elaine Shemilt and Adam Lockhart, in the presence of the artists, curators, academics and journalists.

Published by John Libbey Publishing, ‘EWVA‘ | European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’ is a 240-page book and the first publication to feature the work of women artists in the development of video art in Europe. 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 is opened by an introduction by Laura Leuzzi, with a preface by Laura Mulvey and forward by Siegfried Zielinski.

It is the main output from the a major research programme led by Professor Elaine Shemilt and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The book launch has been made possible through the support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at University of Dundee, Cultural Documents, IFS Worldwide and The Culture and Business Fund Scotland.

The publication launch will be followed by its counterpart exhibition ‘Federica Marangoni and Elaine Shemilt. Parallel Dialogues Through Video and Time’. Please see exhibition opening– Casa Carlo Goldoni, San Polo 2793, Venice, at 18.30 on 5 September 2019

Facebook announcement here.

European Women’s Video Art In The 70s And 80s
at The Tate Modern
24 September at 7 to 8pm – please book tickets
Join Professor Elaine Shemilt and Dr Laura Leuzzi in conversation with Professor Laura Mulvey about their new book aiming to recover the seminal contribution of women video artists. 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. 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.

Pioneering Women in Video Art
at The Glasgow Women’s Library
23 November at 2 to 3pm – freeThis event celebrates the launch of European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s, a book that both recovers and reassesses the seminal contribution of women artists to the form and evolution of video. Editors Laura Leuzzi and Elaine Shemilt will be discussing some of the stories of these ground-breaking artists alongside key videos which will be on display in the library for the following week.