Dr Laura Leuzzi's Outputs (18)

She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 30 May - 31 August 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 4. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/re_exhibit-she-wolves_erotismlovebody/

The exploration into a liberated female body and sexuality is key to the work and research of several women video and film pioneers in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.  Inspired by the famous book by Clarissa Pinkola Estès, "Women who run with the wolves"... Read More about She-wolves: erotism, love, body. [Exhibition].

Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 15 February - 29 March 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 3. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/re_exhibit-shaping-the-contemporary/

This exhibition focuses on the development, discussion and production of moving image and video art in North Macedonia, since the late Yugoslav period. Many of these videos are being shown for the first time in many years and are little known to audi... Read More about Shaping the contemporary: Macedonian video art since 1984. [Exhibition].

I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 10 November - 15 December 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 2. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/i-am-enchanted/

"I am Enchanted and I See" (2023) is an exhibition by Cinzia Cremona, featuring a new video commission in response to Tamara Krikorian's "Vanitas" (1976), which is held in the REWIND Collection. Cremona responds to Krikorian's pioneering artwork with... Read More about I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition].

Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 22 September - 29 October 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 1. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/double-acts/

Having been invited to identify a theme and to select some relevant examples of this approach from the Rewind collection, I have chosen to present works by artists working collaboratively. The medium of video is particularly suited to this way of wor... Read More about Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition].

Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition] (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 12-30 November 2020, Nomas* Projects, Dundee.

This exhibition featured five commissioned artworks that suggest connections and commonalities between sharing and indeterminacy. We casually use the word 'share' to describe distributing images, stories and info across social media networks. Sharing... Read More about Given to chance: Indeterminacy/Share Commission exhibition. [Exhibition].

Opaque documents. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
BONIZZI, V. 2019. Opaque documents. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2019, Nomas* Projects, Dundee.

This solo exhibition, curated by Laura Leuzzi, featured two video works by artist Valentina Bonizzi. The works show the results and failures of the artist's persistent attempts to preserve a story - whether that of a small bird, or of a family album'... Read More about Opaque documents. [Exhibition].

4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition]. Held 17-19 May 2018, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI Museum); Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma; RUFA Space, Rome.

The fourth edition of the Media Art Festival is an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale (Rome) to explore new, increasingly collaborative and increasingly interactive forms of art. What is the relation between natural creativity and a... Read More about 4th Media art festival (MAF 2018): the great convergence: natural and artificial intelligence. [Festival and exhibition].

Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 14 May - 26 July 2018, Threshold Artspace (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall), Perth.

This exhibition features works that investigate the cultural perceptions of walls as barriers, and as symbols of both confinement and unification - marking a territory, taming nature, and separating and protecting people. This was the first solo exhi... Read More about Madelon Hooykaas: virtual walls, real walls. [Exhibition].

3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screening and performance] (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L., NEDKOVA, I. and SPENCE, P. 2018. 3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screenings and performances]. Performed on 8 March 2018, Threshold Artspace (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall), Perth.

The event was the third "3 Generations of Women Artists Perform" (3G) event, hosted as part of Perth Theatre and Concert Hall's celebration of International Women's Day 2018. The event opened with a curated screening of video artworks by European wom... Read More about 3rd 3 generations of women artists perform event (3G 2018). [Film screening and performance].

A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
ROSS, A., MEIKLE, G. and LEUZZI, L. 2017. A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance]. Performed on 9 November 2017, as part of the 9th North-East of North digital arts festival (NEoN Festival 2017): media archaeology, 7-12 November 2017, Dundee, United Kingdom.

Drawing from the REWIND Artists Video Archive and research project European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s (EWVA), a Polyphonic Essay on Memory is a performance, presentation, screening and discussion on the theme of memory. Each curator will u... Read More about A polyphonic essay on memory. [Video performance].

The time is right for ... [Film screening] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2017. The time is right for ... [Film screening]. Performed on 20 September 2017, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

This film screening, curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart, was performed as part of the exhibition of the same name, which was held in August and September 2017 at Summerhall, Edinburgh. The exhibition aimed to highlight a selection of early wom... Read More about The time is right for ... [Film screening].

The time is right for ... [Exhibition] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
The time is right for ... [Exhibition]. Exhibited 2 August - 24 September 2017, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

Artists began to work with video from the late 1960s as a more accessible alternative to film. Although many of these artists are well known today, there are several women artists who experimented with video in the early years who have since been for... Read More about The time is right for ... [Exhibition].

3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition] (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition]. Held 27-29 April 2017, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI Museum), Rome.

The third edition of the Media Art Festival was an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale (Rome) to explore the new frontiers of art, media and culture. The festival was composed of an exhibition at MAXXI National Museum of the Art of t... Read More about 3rd Media art festival (MAF 2017): l'arte che cambia il mondo. [Festival and exhibition].

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

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... Read More about Self/portraits: relating narratives. [Film screening].

Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
SHEMILT, E., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2016. Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance]. Performed on 21 October 2016, as part of the 10th Visions in the Nunnery exhibition, 5 October - 18 December 2016, Nunnery Gallery, London.

This was a re-enactment of the emblematic video work "Doppelgänger" from Professor Elaine Shemilt, part of a series started in 1974 that was originally shown as part of the "Video Show", at the Serpentine Gallery in May 1975. In "Doppelgänger", Shemi... Read More about Doppelgänger redux. [Video performance].

L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition] (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 28 February - 1 May 2016, Church of San Lorenzo, San Vito al Tagliamento.

"L'immediatezza del presente" ("The Immediacy of the Present") was an exhibition that brought together the donated works by Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi and Marcello Di Donato from the Centro di Ricerca ed Archiviazione per la Fotografia (CRAF) ar... Read More about L'immediatezza del presente: Luca Maria Patella, Rosa Foschi, Marcello Di Donato. [Exhibition].

Autoritratti. [Film screening] (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
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.

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 Autoritrat... Read More about Autoritratti. [Film screening].

REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation] (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
PARTRIDGE, S., LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2014. REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation]. Performed on 31 May 2014, as part of the 2014 VIDEOEX international experimental film and video festival (VIDEOEX Festival 2014), 24 May - 1 June 2014, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich.

This output consisted of two 90-minute film screenings, accompanied by a presentation. The presentation provided an introduction to the REWINDItalia project, offering an overview of its aims, objectives and outcomes. The first screening programme inc... Read More about REWIND Italia: artists' video in Italy in the 70s and 80s. [Film screenings and presentation].