Revisiting Dutch Video Art from the 70s
Published on December 17th, 2022
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On the occasion of the exhibition THE 1970s: _ dedicated to the Belgian audiovisual avant-garde of the 1970s, a̷r̷g̷o̷s̷ in collaboration with Bozar presents a conference followed by screenings. They highlight the inventiveness and individuality of the first Belgian and European artists who used video as a medium.
conference + screenings, organised by Katia Rossini, Niels Van Tomme, Dagmar Dirkx
On the occasion of the exhibition THE 1970s: _ dedicated to the Belgian audiovisual avant-garde of the 1970s, a̷r̷g̷o̷s̷ in collaboration with Bozar presents a conference followed by screenings. They highlight the inventiveness and individuality of the first Belgian and European artists who used video as a medium.
THE 1970s: _ restores the importance of this first generation. As part of this project, a large number of films and videos from that era were digitised so that they would not be lost.
13:30 – 18:00 Conference
The conference brings together European researchers and historians to share their thoughts and experiences on the video art movement in Europe in the 1970s. It is also an opportunity to take stock of the rich exchange between Belgian and European artists and collectives.
13:30 Welcoming the audience
14:00 Welcome speech
14:15 From basement to monitor – International video networks in Belgium
Dagmar Dirkx (BE ) & Erien Withouck (BE)
Case studies
14:50 Rewind Italy- Revisiting Italian Video Art from the 70s
Laura Leuzzi (IT)
15:10 Revisiting Dutch Video art from the 70s
Annet Dekker (NL)
New paradigms for revisiting a lost heritage
15:30 Missing Tapes, Found Stories: Women Video Artists in Poland
Marika Kuzmicz (PL)
15:50 Image of an Image of Yourself: women working with video in 1970s and 1980s Britain
Charlotte Procter (UK)
16:10 -16:30 Coffee break
Reappropriating the TV tools
16:30 Exploring the electronic image in France… with what equipment?
Fleur Chevalier (FR)
16:50 Slovenian video art. Between television and festivals
Barbara Borčić (SI)
17:10 -17:45 Discussion
19:30 – 21:30 Screenings
The evening consists of a programme of videos made in the 1970s by nationally and internationally known artists. Rich in rarely screened works, the programme lets us discover a creative, unbridled and uninhibited diversity that has been underestimated for too long.
19:30 compilation
- Experiments for auto-communication (1975), Hubert van Es, Belgium, 5’45”
- The swan and its image (1975) Jacques Louis Nyst, Belgium, 3′
- Le voyage de Christophe Colomb (1975) Jacques Louis Nyst, Belgium, 2’28”
- Une poussière dans l’oeil (1975) Jacques Lennep, Belgium, 2’35”
- 2nd and 3rd Identity (1978) Marceline Mori, UK, 4’43”
- Swing (1978) Tina Keane, UK, 6′
- Invitation au voyage (1973) Robert Cahen, France, 9’30”
- Video A (1974) Pawel Kwiek, Poland, 3’25”
- Video C (1975) Pawel Kwiek, Poland, 3’12”
- Concerto per Clarino e VTR (1976) Michele Sambin, Italy, 3’01”
- Light Solfeggio (1977) Claudio Ambrosini, Italy, 2’20”
- Excerpt from Videogram 4 (1976-1979) Miha Vipotnik, SIovenia, 5’00
- *Rest Energy (1980) Ulay & Abramovic, Netherlands, 4’04”
- *Impressions (1978) Nan Hoover, Netherlands, 10’17
image credit: Videoweekend with Groupe CAP and the Nyst family in Sprimont (image: Jacques Evrard. archive: KMSKB, AHKB, Brussel)
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