Book part: Re-enacting Early Video Art as a Research Tool for Media Art Histories
Abstract
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 early 2000s, the re-enactment of artists’ perfor-mance has been growing as an art practice internationally and has been investigated in several studies and exhibitions. In this paper, I will pro-pose that the re-enactment of early video artworks can open up criticalanalysis on the original work—its nature, form and content—as well as on collective and personal memory and mediation. Re-enactment becomes a research tool that investigates the nature of video which was at the time a relatively new medium. Re-enactment informs the research into the origi-nal piece, its documentation, the relationships between the artist and the body, the work and the viewer. It investigates the effects of analogue video over the viewer and the artist in comparison with the digital video em-ployed in the re-enactment and its documentation. The paper will analyse case studies from the research projects REWIND, REWINDItalia and EWVA (European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s).
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Leuzzi, Laura: Re-enacting Early Video Art as a Research Tool for Media Art Histories. In: Grau, Oliver;Hoth, Janina;Wandl-Vogt, Eveline: Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems a.d. Donau: Edition Donau-Universität 2019, S. 161-177. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13350.
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author = {Leuzzi, Laura},
title = {Re-enacting Early Video Art as a Research Tool for Media Art Histories},
year = 2019,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13350},
editor = {Grau, Oliver and Hoth, Janina and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline},
address = {Krems a.d. Donau},
booktitle = {Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities},
pages = {161--177},
publisher = {Edition Donau-Universität},
}
author = {Leuzzi, Laura},
title = {Re-enacting Early Video Art as a Research Tool for Media Art Histories},
year = 2019,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13350},
editor = {Grau, Oliver and Hoth, Janina and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline},
address = {Krems a.d. Donau},
booktitle = {Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities},
pages = {161--177},
publisher = {Edition Donau-Universität},
}
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