Dr Laura Leuzzi's Outputs (75)

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..

Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2022. Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives. Presented at Scotland in Europe: cultural connections, 1939 to present, 25 February 2022, [virtual event]. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://youtu.be/PnCXXIugIWQ

Since the 1960s, the artist, cultural entrepreneur and educator Richard Demarco has been a notable champion of European visual and performing arts in Scotland. Inspired by his own ancestry, he has cultivated a cultural dialogue between Italy and Scot... Read More about Italo-Scottish dialogues: archival journeys through the Demarco Archives..

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..

Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2021 edition] (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
SBRILLI, A. and LEUZZI, L. 2021. Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. Time's news [online], 52, pages 16-27. Available from: https://studyoftime.org/publications/times-news/

This is the 2021 annual survey of time-focused art, which on this occasion has been curated by Antonella Sbrilli and Laura Leuzzi. Published in the International Society for the Study of Time's "Time's News" annual magazine, this year's survey featur... Read More about Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2021 edition].

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..

Re@ct: social change art technology. (2021)
Journal Article
COOK, S., DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. (eds.) 2021. Re@ct: social change art technology. Media-N: journal of the New Media Caucus [online], 17(2). Available from: https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i2

This special issue of Media-N has been co-edited by Sarah Cook, Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. It gathers essays, artists' statements and experimental writing projects from selected participants in Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology, a three-day s... Read More about Re@ct: social change art technology..

Linguaggio malgrado tutto. (2021)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. and MINTER, L. 2021. Linguaggio malgrado tutto. Item [online], 1, pages 52-63. Available from: https://www.waiting-room.it/flip

This article takes the form of a conversation between the authors (Laura Leuzzi and Leeanne Minter) and the issue editors (Sara d'Alessandro Manozzo and Giusi Campisi). The conversation explores the relationship between art and psychoanalysis, partic... Read More about Linguaggio malgrado tutto..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay] (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
LEUZZI, L. 2021. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2440866

In the 1970s when the portable video recorder was relatively new, several women artists experimented with a medium that was easier to operate than film and free from the heavy male-dominated imprint of traditional artist practices. In several countri... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Essay].

Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2020. Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione. Arabeschi [online], 16(Galleria - Smarginature): proceeindgs of the 2020 Forum annuale delle studiose di cinema e audiovisivi (FAScinA 2020), 8-10 October 2020, [virtual event], paper number 2.3. Available from: http://www.arabeschi.it/23-allo-specchio-le-pioniere-del-video-in-europa-tra-identit--e-rappresentazione/

Identity and representation are dominant themes in the works of women pioneers in video art in the 1970s and early 1980s. Video was agile both from a conceptual point of view (free from the heavy patriarchal legacy of traditional artistic techniques)... Read More about Allo specchio: le pioniere del video in Europa tra identità e rappresentazione..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Presentation] (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2020. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. Presented at the 2020 Archives of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions (AWARE) symposium on transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the 20th century, 3-4 December 2020, [virtual event]. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from: https://youtu.be/rnUkz4RHcWM

In the 1970s when the portable video recorder was relatively new, several women artists experimented with a medium that was easier to operate than film and free from the heavy male-dominated imprint of traditional artist practices. In several countri... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Presentation].

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].

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..

Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. (2019)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Edimburgo – Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. Storia dell'arte [online], 151/152, pages 205-215. Available from: https://www.storiadellarterivista.it/shop/articoli/edimburgo-roma/

Since the 60s, the Italo-Scottish artist and cultural entrepreneur Richard Demarco (Edinburgh, 1930), has played a fundamental role in the production and promotion of European - and in particular Italian - visual and performing arts in Scotland. Dema... Read More about Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery..

The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2019. The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. In Kuźmicz, M. (ed.) Revisiting heritage: material from the conference Revisiting heritage, 7-8 June 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw: Fundacja Arton [online], pages 165-171. Available from: https://issuu.com/fundacjaarton1/docs/arton_book_revisiting_heritage_-_pd

In Summer 1976 the Fourth Susret u Motovun (Encounter in Motovun) took place. As part of the festival, it was organised a video encounter - dedicated to the theme of ‘Identity’ (Identitet=identità) - that turned out to be a key event for the experime... Read More about The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art..

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].

Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L., PARTRIDGE, S. and LOCKHART, A. 2019. Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. In RE:SOUND 2019: proceedings of 8th Histories of media arts international conference 2019 (MAH 2019): sound, media and art; theories, histories, practices, 20-23 August 2019, Aalborg, Denmark. London: BCS, pages 274-282. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.41

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWINDItalia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper... Read More about Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects..

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. (2019)
Book
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. (eds.) 2019. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

"EWVA | European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s" is the main output of the eponymous research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. The res... Read More about EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s..

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..