Dr Laura Leuzzi l.leuzzi@rgu.ac.uk
Curator
Autoritratti. [Film screening]
Contributors
Giulia Casalini
Curator
Abstract
Autoritratti was a performative screening. It employed different methodological tools, including dialogue, autobiography, cross-genre and fragmented narratives. The approach was inspired by Italian feminist thinker Carla Lonzi and her book Autoritratto [Self-portrait] (1969), which was her farewell to the art world. This screening interlaced 'self-portraits' of women artists who have worked around identity and self-definition, in dialogical and confrontational terms towards the 'other', from the 1970s to the present. The selected artists explore their own self, and the dual role of being a woman and a professional artist. Using real and interpreted voices, their works address women's relationships towards their own and male bodies, their love and desires, motherhood, the household, the community, and patriarchal society, history and tradition at large. This screening was curated in collaboration with the European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s (EWVA) project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Citation
LEUZZI, L. and CASALINI, G. 2015. Autoritratti. [Film screening]. Performed on 11 December 2015, as part of the Now You Can Go programme, 10-13 December 2015, The Showroom, London.
Exhibition Performance Type | Performance |
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Start Date | Dec 10, 2015 |
End Date | Dec 13, 2015 |
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jul 6, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 29, 2021 |
Keywords | Video art; Performance art; Feminism |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374991 |
Related Public URLs | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374966 |
Additional Information | This screening featured the following works: "Appendice per una supplica" (Ketty La Rocca, 1972); "Autoritratto in una stanza, documentario = Selfportrait in a room, documentary" (Anna Valeria Borsari, 1977); "Postcard" (Catherine Elwes, 1986); "Dust grains" (Elisabetta di Sopra, 2014); "Doppelgänger" (Elaine Shemilt, 1979-1981); "The drawers" (Maria Teresa Sartori, 2013); "The box of life" (Federica Marangoni, 1979); "Clapping songs" (Tina Keane, 1979); "Before you now" (Cinzia Cremona, 2013). The performance also featured readings by Diana Georgiou, and further participation from the artists Cinzia Cremona, Catherine Elwes, Tina Keane, Maria Teresa Sartori and Elaine Shemilt. |
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