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Thinking with the Harrisons. (2023)
Book
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. [2024]. Thinking with the Harrisons. Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Forthcoming)

This book asks a fundamental question around the place of the arts in the global environmental crises. In arguing that the arts have an important role, we are also suggesting that the arts need to be rethought, reimagined and reconfigured through new... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons..

Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. Presented at the 10th International conference on the histories of media art, science and technology (RE:SOURCE 2023), 13-16 September 2023, Venice, Italy.

This paper aims to question transmissions, teaching methods and approaches. It also aims to discuss and reassess the legacy of a generation of women video and new media pioneers – including Elsa Stansfield, Nan Hoover, Tamara Krikorian, Maria Vedder... Read More about Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe..

Editorial. (2023)
Journal Article
MARR, A., STEED, J. and BRITT, H. 2023. Editorial. Journal of textile design research and practice [online], 11(1-2): revised papers from the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious communities, 7-8 September 2022, Leeds, UK, pages 1-5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2023.2241834

This editorial introduces issue 1-2 of volume 11 of the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. This issue presents revised versions of nine selected papers originally presented at the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious comm... Read More about Editorial..

Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. (2023)
Journal Article
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2023. Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. Journal of textile design research and practice [online], 11(1-2): revised papers from the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious communities, 7-8 September 2022, Leeds, UK, pages 127-147. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2023.2234650

This paper discusses a Knowledge Transfer Project (KTP) with a global Scottish heritage brand, which aimed to develop a year-round sustainable business model through a design-led approach to new product innovation that improves the brand's sustainabi... Read More about Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter] (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. In Laks, D. and Sassu Suarez Ferri, N. (eds.) Transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the XXth century. Passages online, 26. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University; arthistoricum.net [online], pages 39-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1148.c16188

The introduction of the portable video recorder enabled women artists of the 1970s to experiment with a medium that was considered easier and cheaper to operate than film, as well as free from the heavily male-dominated imprint of traditional artisti... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter].

EU citizens living through the pandemic in post-Brexit UK: a visual tour of felt emotions. (2023)
Book
RUGGERONE, L. and HACKETT, C. (eds.) 2023. EU citizens living through the pandemic in post-Brexit UK: a visual tour of felt emotions. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1818024

This digital book presents the results of a research study conducted by the editors in 2021-22 and funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. The study, entitled Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage... Read More about EU citizens living through the pandemic in post-Brexit UK: a visual tour of felt emotions..

Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition]. Exhibition held on 3-19 March 2023, Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Open City is an exhibition which aims to showcase the range of contemporary art practices shaped by, or located in, the city and identifies loose overlaps and problematics that each of these addresses. The trio of trials that have warped the... Read More about Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition].

Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Article] (2023)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2023. Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? Field: a journal of socially-engaged art criticism [online], 23. Available from: https://field-journal.com/issue-23/thinking-with-the-harrisons-what-does-now-demand

"The reversal of entropy requires considerable energy and imagination and is accompanied by risk." This statement from the designer, planner and ecologist Frederick Steiner evokes the core challenge of the current environmental crisis: the energy tha... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Article].

Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. In Dreckmann, K. and Vomberg, E. (eds.) More than illustrated music: aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video. New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 93-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501381263.0015

Since its commercial inception and availability in the late 60s and 70s, video has acted as a powerful tool for women artists to explore feminist issues and debunk stereotypes re-perpetrated over the centuries by patriarchal society. In resonance wit... Read More about Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video..

Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. (2023)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. Arts [online], 12(2), article 42. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020042

This essay is an initial study that examines selected contemporary video artworks addressing identity and representation by contemporary Italian women artists. The author shows how these women artists seek to avoid the objectification and sanitisatio... Read More about Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video..