European Women's video art in the 70s and 80s

“视频给了女性一个机会……因为它不像绘画、雕塑等其他由男性主导的形式那样由男性主导……因此为女性提供了一个发展自己声音的空间。”琼·乔纳斯(Joan Jonas，2010)。这个项目将考察20世纪70年代和80年代欧洲女性艺术家早期视频实验中研究不足的领域。视频作为一种新媒体的出现，使女性艺术家能够使用一种灵活的格式创作艺术，这种格式可以适应她们的实践。性别认同中固有的问题--身体、生育能力、母性、性、对妇女的暴力行为、媒体描绘的妇女的刻板印象、关系、性别歧视以及什么是女性职业艺术家--现在可以发展为移动的图像艺术形式，并以视觉流畅的方式表达出来。关于女性艺术家早期对视频的尝试的参考资料很少，其中大多数集中在在美国工作的女性艺术家。到目前为止，还没有大规模的学术研究专门评估女性视频艺术家的作用及其在欧洲的视频实验和对文化的更广泛影响。该项目旨在追溯女性艺术家的故事、她们的视频作品和她们的成就，以造福学术界，并加强女性艺术家在艺术史经典中的形象和身份。在对该时期在世的艺术家、策展人和动画师进行的一系列半结构化采访中，将寻求第一人称证词作为主要的研究工具。研究将通过以下方式进行：1)档案和书目研究2)对该时期在世的艺术家、策展人和动画师的采访3)重新发现和偶尔恢复开创性的女性艺术家的作品4)重新评估作品5)工作坊和与艺术家一起放映6)制作女性艺术家使用视频的年表。研究结果将发表在一本编辑过的书中，该项目的成果将有助于应对欧盟平等委员会《2010-2015年男女平等战略》的挑战，并加强妇女在视觉艺术和录像艺术领域取得成就的机构。

"Video gave women a chance... because it was not dominated by men like the other forms that were dominated by men like painting, sculpture... and so offered women a space to develop their own voice" Joan Jonas (2010).This project will examine the under-researched area of women artists' early video experimentation in the 1970s and 1980s within Europe. The emergence of video as a new medium, allowed women artists to create art using a flexible format that could be adapted to their practice. Issues inherent within gender identity - the body, fertility, motherhood, sexuality, violence against women, stereotypical images of women portrayed by the media, relationships, sexual discrimination, and what is was to be a female professional artist - could now be developed as moving image art forms and expressed with a visual fluency. Only few reference sources exist on women artists' early experimentations with video and of these, most concentrate upon female artists working in the USA. As yet, no large-scale academic study has specifically assessed the role of the female video artist and their experimentation with video and wider impact on culture in Europe.This project aims to retrace women artists' stories, their works in video and their achievements to the benefit of academia, and to strengthen the profiles and identities of women artists within the art historical canon. First-person testimony will be sought as a primary research tool in a series of semi-structured interviews with the surviving artists, curators and animateurs of the period.The research will be undertaken by:1) Archival and bibliographical research2) Interviews with the surviving artists, curators and animateurs of the period.3) Rediscovery and occasional recovery of seminal women artists' works4) Reassessment of the works5) Workshops and screening with artists6) Making of a Chronology of Women Artists' use of video.The research findings will be published in an edited book, articles and presented in conferences and will provide an authoritative source on early women artists' experimentation of videotape as a new medium and language for their artworks.The results will create an essential tool for future focuses on specific artists, works and archives at risk of loss and the recovery of those works that have not yet been re-mastered on digital format.The outcomes of the project will contribute to meeting the challenges of the EU Equality Commision's Strategy for equality between Women and Men 2010-2015 and to an enhanced agency of women's achieving in the field of visual arts and video art in particular within Europe