The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art.

Leuzzi, Laura

Abstract

In Summer 1976 the Fourth Susret u Motovun (Encounter in Motovun) took place. As part of the festival, it was organised a video encounter - dedicated to the theme of ‘Identity’ (Identitet=identità) - that turned out to be a key event for the experimentation of the medium that at the time was relatively new and not still widely available in many regions in Europe. The encounter was organised by the Ethnographic Museum of Istria, Pisino, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Zagreb, the Likovna Gallery in Motovun and by Galleria del Cavallino (Cavallino Gallery) - directed at the time by Paolo and Gabriella Cardazzo - from Venice. In that occasion, they were produced more than twenty video artworks with Italian and Yugoslav artists including Sanja Iveković, Živa Kraus, Zdravko Milić, Dalibor Martinis, Goran Trbuljak, Michele Sambin, Luigi Viola and Claudio Ambrosini. This paper gives an overview of the fruitful relationships developed between Italy and Yugoslavia in the field of video and analyses the importance of the Motovun encounter in the development of the medium in Europe.

Citation

LEUZZI, L. 2019. The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. In Kuźmicz, M. (ed.) Revisiting heritage: material from the conference Revisiting heritage, 7-8 June 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw: Fundacja Arton [online], pages 165-171. Available from: https://issuu.com/fundacjaarton1/docs/arton_book_revisiting_heritage_-_pd

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Revisiting heritage
• Start Date: Jun 7, 2018
• End Date: Jun 8, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jun 7, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: Aug 22, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2024
• Publisher: Fundacja Arton
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 165-171
• Book Title: Revisiting heritage: material from the conference
• ISBN: 9788393802968; 9788393802944
• Keywords: Video art; Yugoslavia; Italy
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374928
• Publisher URL: https://issuu.com/fundacjaarton1/docs/arton_book_revisiting_heritage_-_pd
• Additional Information: The published version of these proceedings features ISBNs 9788393802968 and 9788366098329. A further version with ISBN 9788393802944, dated 2018, is also known to have existed, though no longer available from the publisher.