Resources

On the occasion of the exhibition THE 1970s: _ dedicated to the Belgian audiovisual avant-garde of the 1970s, a̷r̷g̷o̷s̷ in collaboration with Bozar presented a conference followed by screenings on December 17th, 2022. The inventiveness and individuality of the first Belgian and European artists who used video as a medium was highlighted in this series of lectures and screenings. European researchers and historians shared their thoughts and experiences on the video art movement in Europe in the 1970s. It was a moment of exchange and taking stock of the rich history of sharing ideas, experimenting and artistic collaborations between Belgian and European artists and collectives.

PARTICIPATING LECTURERS

LAURA LEUZZI (IT)
is an art historian and curator. She is the author of articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogues, with her research focused on video art, feminisms, art and activism and new media. She is co-editor of REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy (John Libbey Publishing 2015) and EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s (John Libbey Publishing 2019). Currently she is a Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and Honorary Fellow at Gray's School of Art, RGU, Aberdeen and Abertay University in Dundee.

ANNET DEKKER (NL)
is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image. She is a specialist curator and dedicated author of a series of both self-authored and edited books that define the practices and explore the history of curating and conserving digital and, in particular, net art. (https://aaaan.net/)

MARIKA KUZMICZ (PL)
is an art historian and curator researching overlooked women artists. She is a dean at the Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies) in Warsaw. She is the founder of the non-profit organization Arton Foundation and was the coordinator of the project Forgotten Heritage dedicated to rediscovering works by avant-garde artists from Poland, Croatia, Belgium and Estonia, with a focus on the 1960s and 1970s. (www.fundacjaarton.pl/) and “Not Yet Written Stories. Women Artists’ Archives On-Line (2019-2022).

CHARLOTTE PROCTER (UK)
is an archivist and programmer, Collection & Archive Director at LUX and member of the Cinenova Working Group - a volunteer collective who preserve and distribute the feminist film & video collection Cinenova. She continues to pursue collaborative projects foregrounding and questioning the historicization and distribution of feminist & radical media.

FLEUR CHEVALIER (FR)
is a doctor in the aesthetics, sciences and technologies of the arts. Her research retraces the work and history of video artists on French television. Passionate about outreach through culture and the arts, she’s also an accredited tour guide for the French National Museums (Réunion des Musées Nationaux).

BARBARA BORCIC (SL)
is art historian and program advisor at SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts, active in the field of contemporary arts as free-lance curator and writer with focus on performance art and video art. She was the artistic director of ŠKUC Gallery (1982-1985), Director of SCCA-Ljubljana (2000-2015) and Head of video programs and DIVA Station Archive at the SCCA–Ljubljana (2000-2019). She has curated a number of video/media exhibitions, lectured and published texts in catalogues, magazines and books. She has participated at a number of international symposia, exhibitions & festivals, among them, Ostraniene Dessau, SEAF Rotterdam, Interstanding Tallinn, Transmediale Berlin and Ars electronica Linz.

DAGMAR DIRKX (BE)
is a writer, curator and art historian. At argos centre for audiovisual arts, they carried out research into experimental film and video from the 1970s. Forgotten pioneers from the past inspire their thinking and writing. Dagmar has written for the likes of Metropolis M, Fantômas, De Witte Raaf and TIM Magazine.

ERIEN WITHOUCK (BE)
is a Brussels based artist and researcher. In 2019 she worked with argos on the research project THE 1970s : ____, focussing mainly on the Antwerp scene. The last few years she was selected for the FoMU .Tiff program for emerging photographers in Belgium and the European FUTURES platform. She is currently working on a long-term artistic research project which focuses on Belgian native plant names, stories, games and rituals.

LECTURES

1. CASE STUDIES
   
   Rewind Italy- Revisiting Italian Video Art from the 70s
   Laura Leuzzi (IT)
   
   Revisiting Dutch Video art from the 70s
   Annet Dekker (NL)
   
   
2. NEW PARADIGMS FOR REVISITING A LOST HERITAGE
   
   Missing Tapes, Found Stories: Women Video Artists in Poland
   Marika Kuźmicz (PL)
   
   Image of an Image of Yourself: women working with video in 1970s and 1980s Britain
   Charlotte Procter (UK)
   
   
3. REAPPROPRIATING THE TV TOOLS
   
   Exploring the electronic image in France… with what equipment?
   Fleur Chevalier (FR)
   
   Slovenian video art. Between television and festivals
   Barbara Borčić (SI)
   
   Panel Discussion