Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione.

Leuzzi, Laura

Abstract

Identity and representation are dominant themes in the works of women pioneers in video art in the 1970s and early 1980s. Video was agile both from a conceptual point of view (free from the heavy patriarchal legacy of traditional artistic techniques) and from a practical point of view (free from the need for large numbers of supporting crew and lengthy development/production times). It therefore offered the opportunity to experience body and image in an intimate and direct way, and to innovate the genres of self-portraiture and portraiture.

Citation

LEUZZI, L. 2020. Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione. Arabeschi [online], 16(Galleria - Smarginature): proceeindgs of the 2020 Forum annuale delle studiose di cinema e audiovisivi (FAScinA 2020), 8-10 October 2020, [virtual event], paper number 2.3. Available from: http://www.arabeschi.it/23-allo-specchio-le-pioniere-del-video-in-europa-tra-identit--e-rappresentazione/

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2020 Forum annuale delle studiose di cinema e audiovisivi (FAScinA 2020)
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2020
• Deposit Date: Mar 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 20, 2023
• Journal: Arabeschi
• Electronic ISSN: 2282-0876
• Publisher: Università di Catania
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: Galleria - Smarginature
• Article Number: 2.3
• Keywords: Self-portraiture; Portraiture; Video art; European art
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1369315
• Publisher URL: http://www.arabeschi.it/23-allo-specchio-le-pioniere-del-video-in-europa-tra-identit--e-rappresentazione/
• Additional Information: This paper is a rework of some theories that had been previously outlined in a book chapter by the author: LEUZZI, L. 2020. Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. In Leuzzi, L., Shemilt, E. and Partridge, S. (eds.) EWVA: European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.