The Emergence of Video Art in Europe (1960–1980): history, theory, sources and archives.

with François Bovier, Stéphanie Serra

To date, there is no European-wide history of video art. It is this gap that the present research programme proposes to fill. Firstly by gathering data on the artists, the works and the events that enabled the emergence of this new artistic practice in the 1960s, or that were important in its development in the following years in Europe, and by bringing to light specific national conditions of production and distribution.

EXHIBITIONS

DISRUPTIONS EARLY VIDEO ART IN EUROPE,
20.02–23.04.2025,
FMAC, Genève

A collaboration with the research project Emergence of Video Art in Europe led by François Bovier, the exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe focuses on the first steps of video art in Switzerland and its connections with European art movements of the 1970s.

PROJECTION

Video on Screen. The Early Years in Europe,
27–29.11.2024,
Tate Modern, Londres

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.