European Women’s Video Art
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 49850158
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- University of Dundee
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The European Women’s Video Art (EWVA) represents an AHRC funded sustained, complex research project lasting six years, where extensive, difficult to access, primary sources were collated from across Europe in order to investigate and reconsider the importance of early avantgarde feminist video work. The outputs from this research include EWVA website, a publication edited, and chapter authored by Shemilt, related published papers, symposium, a series of case study exhibitions and network building events. The traceable curatorial impact of this research includes addressing the technical challenges of degrading video material, reasserting this marginalised polyvocal aspect of practice into the cannon.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘European Women’s Video Art’ is a multi-component
research project, led by Elaine Shemilt, which
investigated the first decade of early video works
by women artists from 1974 onwards. With diverse
outcomes, the project culminated in an anthology
of writings by leading international artists, academics,
and curators and was partially supported by a
£230K AHRC award (2015-2018).
Involving extensive field research across Europe into
institutional and single-artist personal archives, and
conducting semi-structured interviews, Shemilt’s
aim in the project was to reveal the overlooked
achievements, issues and production of these
women, offering the results for further scholarship
and the attention of new publics. A further aim was
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,
which was a relatively new medium at the time.
The project used newly curated exhibitions as case
studies, with papers, performances, book chapters
and a website (http://ewva.ac.uk) as its method
and mode of dissemination. The curatorial research
involved curators Gabriele Schor, Deirdre
Mackenna, Chiara Squarcina, Iliyana Nedkova,
Laura Leuzzi, Cinzia Cremona, Tessa Garland,
Živa Kraus, Valentino Catricala, Giulia Casalini,
and Diana Georgiou.
The main publication is a well-illustrated hardback
with introductory prefaces from Laura Mulvey
and Siegfried Zielinsky, published by John Libbey
Publishing (2019). It constitutes a significant
resource for further scholarship, artists, curators and
general interested audiences, offering investigations
on the theme, from different perspectives. Much
use of primary sources was derived from the
funded research project and beyond by the
contributors.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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