Sulla re-installazione e l'esposizione di film e video d'artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria.

Leuzzi, Laura

Abstract

In the last decade, there have been numerous projects and studies focused on researching, recovering, cataloging and restoring the film and artist videos of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, both in Europe and the USA. These projects are symptomatic of growing national and international interest in these materials, with examples including: the study, recovery and archiving of the video works of the ZKM in Germany; the "Rewind" research project in Great Britain, which has digitized and cataloged over 500 British video works since 2004; the project to recover and archive the video collection of art/tapes/22 held by the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (ASAC) of the Venice Biennale, and the project to recover the collection of the Videoarte Center of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara - both of which were carried out with the technical support of "La Camera Ottica" and "CREA" (University of Udine), under the scientific coordination of Cosetta G. Saba; the research project "Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema"; the publication of the catalogue of the US Video Data Bank; the conservation project undertaken by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), which involved some of the pioneers of French video including Lea Lublin and Nil Yalter, and which was presented at some recent study days organised by the BNF, the Institut national d'histoire de art (INHA) and the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne - "L'émergence de dell'arte vidéo en Europe: historiographie, théorie, sources et archives", 25-26 May 2016. This conference, in which the author participated as a speaker, was an opportunity to discuss conservation practices and formats, and to compare in an open and fruitful way experiences from different sectors, such as universities, museums and archives. It should be noted that the case of the BNF opens the interesting (and previously unpublished) precedent of conservation and restoration of video works being undertaken by an institution that is not strictly devoted to the visual arts and cinema. This brings the possibility of exploring new protocols, best practices and methodologies. The full text of this article is in Italian.

Citation

LEUZZI, L. 2017. Sulla re-installazione e l'esposizione di film e video d'artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria. Imago: studi di cinema e media, 14: Il paesaggio sonoro negli studi di cinema e media, 7(2), pages 217-232.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 31, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 18, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 18, 2021
• Journal: Imago: studi di cinema e media
• Print ISSN: 2038-5536
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14: Il paesaggio sonoro negli studi di cinema e media, 7(2)
• Pages: 217-232
• Keywords: Video art; Conservation of video; Restoration of video; Europe; USA
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374964
• Additional Information: The full text accompanying this record is in Italian. The published version (ISBN 9788868970932) is available for purchase from the publisher's website: https://www.bulzoni.it/en/cat/n-14-dossier-ears-wide-open.html