Artists began to work with video from the late 1960s as a more accessible alternative to film. Although many of these artists are well known today, there are several women artists who experimented with video in the early years who have since been forgotten or marginalised. As a result many women artists’ fundamental and pioneering experiments remain under-researched and very little critical writing about them has been published.

The screening is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition at Summerhall:

The Time is Right For... curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart

18:30 - SCREENING

The works that will be shown are:

Federica Marangoni, Il volo impossibile [The Impossible Flight], 1982, Italy

Marion Urch, From Russia with Love, 1987, UK

Tina Keane, In Our Hands, Greenham, 1984, excerpt, UK

Sanja Iveković, Slatleo nasilje [Sweet Violence], 1974, Croatia

Maria Vedder, Der geometrische Ort aller Punkte [The Geometrical Locus of All Points], 1984, Germany

The duration of the screening - 40 minutes

19:15 - PANEL DISCUSSION

The screening will be followed by the panel discussion. It will consist of Elaine Shemilt and Laura Leuzzi.

The exhibition and the screening are a collaboration between Summerhall and EWVA (European Women’s Video Art in the 1970s and 1980s), an AHRC funded research project, based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee (Scotland). EWVA is led by the British video pioneers Professor Elaine Shemilt and Professor Stephen Partridge with Research Fellow Dr Laura Leuzzi and Media Archivist Adam Lockhart.

Image credit: Federica Marangoni, Il volo impossibile [The Impossible Flight]