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Video on Screen The Early Years in Europe Day One

27 November 2024 at 18.30–20.15

Black and white static tv screen displaying the words 'ARTISTS VIDEO'

Front cover of Artists Video Exhibition Catalogue, 1976. Courtesy Brian Hoey and Wendy Brown

What does it mean to screen a work, made to be shown on a TV monitor, on a cinema screen?

Focusing on pioneering works produced in Europe between 1960-1980, this two-day programme questions the possibilities that emerge from this distortion. These works were either made using synthesizers, largely designed for projection, or intended for television and shot on 16mm film.

Programme

On the CRT monitor at the entrance: Ketty La Rocca Appendice per una Supplica 1972. Open Reel transferred to video, black and white, silent, 9 min 30 secs
Looping on the cinema screen: Charlotte Johannesson Untitled 1981-1985. Digital computer graphics (slide show of 13 images).
Introduction by François Bovier
Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt Moiré 1970-75. Video, colour, sound, 6 min
Robert Cahen L’invitation au voyage 1973. Betacam SP, colour, sound, 9min
Miha Vipotnik Video Grafike 1976-77. Video, colour, sound, 17 min
Nicolas Schöffer Variations luminodynamiques 1 1961. 16 mm transferred to video, black and white, sound, 9 min
Geneviève Calame Labyrinthes fluides 1976. Video, colour, sound, 9 min
Brian Hoey and Wendy Brown Flow 1977. Video, colour, sound, 16 min
Conversation between Brian Hoey, Stéphanie Serra and Valentina Ravaglia

This two-day programme has been co-curated with Stéphanie Serra and François Bovier and expands on a research project initiated with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation via the ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and the French National Agency with Université Paris 8. It will lead to the publication Early Video Art in Europe. Multiple Emergences to be released in 2025.

François Bovier

François Bovier is a senior lecturer in the Film Studies department at the University of Lausanne and a research fellow at Lausanne University of Art and Design (Ecal). Cofounding editor of the film magazine Décadrages (Lausanne, 2003), he has written numerous articles on experimental cinema, militant and artists’ films in scholarly journals and books, recently publishing Lettrisme et cinéma: de la lettre au photogramme (Paris Expérimental, 2023). He co-directs the research programme Emergence of Video Art in Europe together with Grégoire Quenault.

Stéphanie Serra

Stéphanie Serra is a researcher and lecturer at the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. She studies artistic practices at the crossroad between literature, the moving image and contemporary art.

This event will be BSL interpreted.

You can enter via the Cinema entrance, left of the Turbine Hall main entrance, and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner street. The Starr Cinema is on Level 1 of the Natalie Bell Building. There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Natalie Bell buildings. Alternatively, you can take the stairs. There is space for wheelchairs and a hearing loop is available. All works screened in the Starr Cinema have English captions.

Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.

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