Ewva: European Women's Video Art in the 70s And 80s
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1894
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- John Libbey Publishing
- ISBN
- 9780861967346
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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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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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- European Women’s Early Video Art is a multi-component research project started in 2014, which investigated the first decade of early video works by women artists from 1974. With diverse outcomes it culminated in this anthology of writings by artists, academics, and curators and was partially supported by a £230k AHRC Research Award. Involving extensive field research across Europe into institutional and single artist personal archives, and semi-structured interviews, the project aimed to reveal the overlooked achievements, issues and industry of these women and offer 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 as a then relatively new medium. The project used newly curated exhibitions as case studies, papers, performances, book chapters and a web site (http://ewva.ac.uk) all as parts of its method and 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 and developed curatorial interest which is still growing. Hard back, 121 colour/b/w illustrations, introductory prefaces from Laura Mulvey, Siegfried Zeilinsky. Along with website (www.ewva.ac.uk) it constitutes a significant resource for further scholarship, artists, curators and general interested audiences and generated curatorial influence: c.f. The Feminist Avant Garde – Book- 2014 & 2020; sales of P.I. art works and Exhibition Tour 2016-202; She devil in the Mirror- Exhibition, Studio Stefania Miscetti Rome Italy 2016; CURRENT Contemporary Art From Scotland – Shanghai, China Exhibition 2017; Museum of Northern Ireland – sales of P.I. art works.
The publication was launched at Tate Modern (24.9.2019) and Museo Correr, Venice (18.9.2019).
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- Non-English
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