Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening]

Abstract

This event was the sequal to the performative screening titled "Autoritratti" (2015). Self/Portraits: Relating Narratives weaves together the visual narratives of twelve international women artists or collectives, who have worked around questions of identity and self-determination - often in confrontation with their respective social and political contexts. Employing real and interpreted voices, lyrics and unorthodox visual techniques, their works address female sexuality, motherhood, ecology and violence. This event used various methodological tools, including dialogue, autobiography, cross-genre and fragmented narratives. This curatorial approach is inspired by two Italian feminist authors who located everyday narratives and exchanges at the heart of their philosophical and political strategies. The radical thinker Carla Lonzi and her book Autoritratto [Self-portrait] (1969), offered an unprecedented montage of different artists' interviews, recomposed by the author into a continuous flux, a convivial conversation. Most significantly, her work was also a personal portrait, carved out of relations between artists and their critics. This event was also inspired by the feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero's book Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (2000), in which an exploration of identity is framed as the desire to hear one's story narrated by another.

Citation

LEUZZI, L., CASALINI, G. and GEORGIOU, D. 2016. Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening]. Performed on 9 December 2016, Visual Research Centre, Dundee.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Performance
• Start Date: Dec 9, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 8, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 29, 2021
• Keywords: Video art; Feminism; Women artists; Self-portraiture
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374966
• Related Public URLs: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374991
• Additional Information: This screening featured the following works: "Furor Latino" (Pilar Albarracin, 2003); "The Other Person" (Cinzia Cremona, 2010); "There is a Myth" (Catherine Elwes, 1984); "Cry Me" (Francesca Fini, 2009); "Transit" (Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, 1986); "Barbed Hula" (Sigalit Landau, 2000); "Vanitas" (Tamara Krikorian, 1977); "Japsen" (Muda Mathis and Pipilotti Rist, 1988); "Romeo is Bleeding" (Lydia Schouten, 1982); "Women Soldiers" (Elaine Shemilt, 1984); "Schwanger-Sein II: Phase Three" (Annegret Soltau, 1978/80). The performance also featured readings by Diana Georgiou, and a Q&A session with Laura Leuzzi and the artists Cinzia Cremona, Lydia Schouten and Elaine Shemilt, moderated by Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiou.