Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe
FMAC, Fonds municipal d'art contemporain, Geneva
Part one (1969-1975): 20 Feb. – 19 March 2025
Part two (1975-1979): 27 March – 23 April 2025
The exhibition explores the beginnings of Video Art in Switzerland
and its resonance in Europe in the 1970s. Performances, critiques of television, installations and video manipulation show how this medium has contributed to the evolution of the visual arts. Video works from the FMAC and Europe are presented in dialogue, exploring their similarities, contrasts and influences.
With productions by artists such as Vincenzo Agnetti, Helena Almeida, René Bauermeister, Dominique Belloir, Gábor Bódy, Marinus Boezem, Wendy Brown, Jeep et Livinus van de Bundt, Robert Cahen, Geneviève Calame, Eugenio Carmi, Giuseppe Chiari, Gianni Colombo, Rudolf de Crignis, Peter Donebauer, VALIE EXPORT, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Jochen Gerz, Jacques Guyonnet, Alexander Hahn, David Hall, Marianne Heske, Brian Hoey, Madelon Hooykaas, Sanja Iveković, Jean Kerchbron, Jannis Kounellis, Klára Kuchta, Pawel Kwiek, Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl, Urs Lüthi, Manon, Raúl Marroquin, Dalibor Martinis, Dieter Meier, Ernesto Manuel de Melo e Castro, Guy Milliard, Gérald Minkoff, Antoni Muntadas, Suzanne Nessim, Jacques-Louis Nyst, Marcel Odenbach, Muriel Olesen, Jean Otth, Stephen Partridge, Walter Pfeiffer, Otto Piene, Martial Raysse, Francis Reusser, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Nicolas Schöffer, Elaine Shemilt, Elsa Stansfield, Aldo Tambellini, Janos Urban, Miha Vipotnik, Wolf Vostell, Peter Weibel, Teresa Wennberg, Anna Winteler and Nil Yalter.
Previous Events
Video on Screen. The Early Years in Europe
Tate Film, Tate Modern, London
Part one: 27 Nov. 2024
(with a conversation between Brian Hoey, Stéphanie Serra and Valentina Ravaglia)
Part two: 29 Nov. 2024
(with a lecture by Laura Leuzzi, followed by a conversation with Rúrí)
Focusing on pioneering works produced in Europe (1960-1980), this two-day programme presents a selection of works made with synthesizers or intended for television, often first filmed on 16mm and subsequently transferred to video. With productions by artists such as Helena Almeida, Wendy Brown and Brian Hoey, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Robert Cahen, Geneviève Calame, Sanja Iveković, Charlotte Johannesson, Pawel Kwiek, Ketty La Rocca, Dieter Meier, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Martial Raysse, Rúrí, Nicolas Schöffer and Jean Kerchbron, Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene, VALIE EXPORT or Miha Vipotnik, the programme is co-curated with Valentine Umansky, Beatrice Garcia-Velasco and Valentina Ravaglia as an echo and extension to the exhibition Electric Dreams. Art and Technology before the Internet (28.11.24 – 01.06.25, Tate Modern, London).
Previous Seminars
INHA, Paris
27-28 Oct. 2021, 13-14 June 2023
ECAL, Lausanne
14-15 June 2022, 7-8 Nov. 2022, 13-14 Nov. 2023, 12 June 2024, 12 Dec. 2024
Previous Colloquiums
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
25-26 May 2016 (and INHA, Paris), 13-14 Nov. 2017, 22 May and 11-12 Dec. 2018, 4-5 Dec. 2019
ECAL, Lausanne
11-12 Déc. 2017, 19 June 2019
ECAL Grand Tour
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
19-21 Nov. 2021