Dr Laura Leuzzi's Outputs (15)

In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1110, pages 53-56.

This chapter - a short essay - forms Laura Leuzzi's chapter contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, scholars an... Read More about In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating..

European values. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZEĆO, M. 2023. European values. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1111, pages 57-60.

This chapter - a selection of quotes within variously decorated pages - forms Maja Zećo's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate respo... Read More about European values..

Aphorisms on art and activism. (2023)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2023. Aphorisms on art and activism. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1100, pages 45-48.

This chapter - a compilation of aphorisms - forms Jon Blackwood's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, schol... Read More about Aphorisms on art and activism..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter] (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. In Laks, D. and Sassu Suarez Ferri, N. (eds.) Transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the XXth century. Passages online, 26. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University; arthistoricum.net [online], pages 39-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1148.c16188

The introduction of the portable video recorder enabled women artists of the 1970s to experiment with a medium that was considered easier and cheaper to operate than film, as well as free from the heavily male-dominated imprint of traditional artisti... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter].

Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. In Dreckmann, K. and Vomberg, E. (eds.) More than illustrated music: aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video. New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 93-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501381263.0015

Since its commercial inception and availability in the late 60s and 70s, video has acted as a powerful tool for women artists to explore feminist issues and debunk stereotypes re-perpetrated over the centuries by patriarchal society. In resonance wit... Read More about Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video..

Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. (2022)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2022. Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. In Leuzzi, L., Partridge, S. and Shemilt, E. (eds.) Richard Demarco: the Italian connection. Barnet: John Libbey, chapter 7, pages 105-113.

During the Cold War period, relations between the UK and Yugoslavia were couched entirely in the frames of politics, economics or military history; in the later years of socialist Yugoslavia, from the later seventies onwards, links were also develope... Read More about Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s..

Making politics: engaged social tactics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Making politics: engaged social tactics. In burrough, x. and Walgren, J. (eds.) Art as social practice: technologies for change. New York: Routledge [online], chapter 10, pages 126-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-13

In this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborator... Read More about Making politics: engaged social tactics..

Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. In Schor, G. (ed.) Feministische Avantgarde: Kunst der 1970er-Jahre. Vienna: Sammlung Verbund; Munich: Prestel Germany, volume 2, pages 178-181.

In her art, Elaine Shemilt uses the image of the body to powerfully illustrate her exploration of identity, and her problematization and questioning of the representation and objectification of women. Her work challenges society as a whole and the ar... Read More about Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest..

The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. In Watson, A. (ed.) Demarco 2020. Dundee: Laura Leuzzi, pages 40-41.

In his memoirs Richard Demarco has often stressed the importance of his Italian upbringing. His maternal grandmother being from Barga in Tuscany, his grandfather from Picinisco near Frosinone, by virtue of his origins he is the embodiment of the quin... Read More about The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues..

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. (2020)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. 2020. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. In Catricalà, V. and Quaranta, D. (eds.) Sopravvivenza programmata: etiche e pratiche di conservazione, dall'arte cinetica alla Net Art. Rome: Edizioni Kappabit, pages 255-268.

This chapter discusses methodologies, findings and outputs that emerged during the AHRC funded research project EWVA.

Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. In Grau, O., Hoth, J. and Wandl-Vogt, E. (eds.) Digital art through the looking glass: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems [online], pages 161-177. Available from: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:a29638aa-f334-4abb-9601-10e36652d09f/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_updated.pdf

This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 1970s and 1980s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial point of view. Since the ea... Read More about Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories..

Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. 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, chapter 1, pages 7-24.

During the Renaissance, a new sense of agency in the role and identity of the artist stimulated the self-portrait as an independent genre. Since that period, many artists have explored this genre with different results and sensibilities, employing ne... Read More about Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe..

Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover. (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2015. Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover. In Smite, R., Smits, R. and Manovich, L. (eds.) Data drift: archiving media and data art in the 21st century. Acoustic space, 14. Rīga: RIXC, pages 121-127 (108-114).

Italy was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This period was all the more remarkable because of the early date and the international reach of the work produced. Artists connected to the Italian vi... Read More about Italian video art centers and archives: a treasure yet to discover..

Some notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes. (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2015. Some notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes = Alcune note sui videotape di Luca Maria Patella. In Leuzzi, L. and Partridge, S. (eds.) REWIND Italia: early video art in Italy = I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, pages 165-182.

In this chapter Leuzzi retraces Luca Maria Patella's seminal video experimentation in the 1970s, including three videotapes recovered during REWINDItalia in 2011.

Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down". (2015)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. 2015. Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down". In Catricalà, V. (ed.) Media art: towards a new definition of arts in the age of technology. Pistoia: Gli Ori, pages 97-103.

Body; identity; self-representation; sexuality; stereotypical images of women as portrayed by the society and the media; the condition of female professional artists: these themes were expressed and developed in several early video works in the 1970s... Read More about Body, sign and double: a parallel analysis of Elain Shemilt's "Doppelganger", Federica Marangoni's "The box of life", and Sanja Ivekovic's "Instructions no.1" and "Make up - make down"..