Exhibition
From REWIND
Time Revealing Truth
| A Celebration of the Life and Work of Tamara Krikorian and Tony Sinden
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Tuesday 27 October 2009, 18.30
| In the Summer of 2009, the world sadly lost two important British artists who pioneered the use of the moving image in the gallery during the 1970s - Tamara Krikorian and Tony Sinden. Both of these artists were involved significantly in the REWIND project.
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DVD Launch & Performance of In Two Minds by Kevin Atherton
| Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP
Thursday 22 October 7pm Free
| In Two Minds is a two monitor installation first exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1978. This work consisted of Atherton on one video monitor asking questions of himself on the other monitor. The questions, typically of that time, largely address the nature of the piece itself. At the time of making the piece he had no intention of using it beyond the Serpentine show, the rough and ready state of the black and white tapes attest to this. However, the 'open' or 'incomplete' nature of the work allows him to 're-enter' it and create a new live version, where as a 58 year old man he can answer questions put to him by his 27 year old former self.
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REWIND @ Stills
| Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP
6th August - 25th October 2009 Monday - Thursday 11am - 9.00pm, Friday - Sunday 11am - 6pm | REWIND at Stills is a specially curated exhibition, for the Edinburgh Arts Festival, of seminal works from the formative years of British video art. Digitally remastered and archived by REWIND, this showcase of pioneering artworks from the 1970’s and 1980’s is organised in partnership with Stills and exhibited in Stills' public resource area. The videotechstyle exhibition provides a unique opportunity to view the early years of a medium that has become a cultural mainstay in museums and galleries alike. In addition to the video collection, visitors will be able to access information on all the artists and their work from an online resource, which includes interviews with the artists, critical texts, reviews and ephemera. REWIND Artists’ Video in the 70s and 80s is a research project based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. |
BBC Big Screen Edinburgh
| Festival Square, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
5th August - 5th September 2009 Daily at intermittent times | In partnership with artist Kate V. Robertson, Magic Lantern (Scotland’s leading short film curators), artist David Hall and REWIND Artists' Video in the 70s & 80s, the Edinburgh Art Festival will be broadcasting daily from the Big Screen Edinburgh:
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Kill Your Timid Notion: Micronotions
| Dundee Contemporary Arts, Visual Research Centre, Microcinema
10th-12th October 2008 Friday 18.00-23.00, Saturday 10.30-23.00, Sunday 12.00-23.00 | REWIND have selected a number of works from the collection as part of the 'Kill your Timid Notion' festival. This annual event explores the boundries between sound and vision using mediums such as video, film, sound art, avante garde music and performance.
Micronotions explores instances of repetition and abstraction from various perspectives honing on the relationships between what is seen and what is heard. The programme features work from the Duvet Brothers, Judith Goddard, John Latham, David Critchley, Mike Leggett, David Hall, Mineo Aayamaguchi, Peter Donebauer and Tony Sinden. |
REWIND at doggerfisher
| doggerfisher gallery, 11 Gayfield Sq, Edinburgh, EH1 3NT
30th September - 25th October 2008 | Works from the REWIND archive are being exhibited at doggerfisher gallery. This is an excellent oppurtunity to see these important artworks. The works have been selected by doggerfisher in conjunction with REWIND and will feature the following artists: David Hall, Stephen Partridge, Tina Keane, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Mick Hartney and Ian Breakwell. |
Scratch Video
| Dundee Contemporary Arts, Cinema 2
Tues 1st April 2008, 6pm, £3
16th - 21st March 2009  | A screening of a series of videos from the ‘Scratch Video’ genre which was prevalent in the 1980s and has generally been forgotten about in contemporary culture. This genre was the first to use samples of video and mix them with sampled music and sound, leading into the dance music generation of the early 1990s. The works that will be shown are some of the best examples of this work from British artists.
These works use as their source, extracts from archive footage, news bulletins, old feature films and TV footage. They allude to socio-political and contemporary events such as the Cold War and Thatcher’s Britain. Some of the issues raised are still relevant today. Artists featured: George Barber/Kim Flitcroft & Sandra Goldbacher/Jeffery Hinton/The Duvet Brothers/John Scarlett-Davis/John Maybury/Gorilla Tapes/Akiko Hada & Holger Hiller/Chris Meigh-Andrews/Nick Cope. |
Lost and Found: Recovered Works from the 1970s
| Dundee Contemporary Arts, Gallery 2
Fri 9th November 2007. | An evening of video works not seen since the 1970s that have been recovered and preserved by REWIND. The works include ‘In Two Minds’ by Kevin Atherton, ‘Pieces I Never Did’ by David Critchley and Stephen Partridge’s ‘Dialogue for Four Players’. This was the first time these multi-screen pieces were exhibited as projections in this form.
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REWIND Soft Launch
| Visual Research Centre and Dundee Contemporary Arts
| The Soft Launch had a number of components including workstations featuring the Database at the heart of the REWIND research resource, with interviews, ephemera, articles and other information on all of the artists who have participated in REWIND thus far. |
| Launch Lecture
April 7th 4.00pm -Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee | Professor Sean Cubitt and Dr. Jackie Hatfield gave a public lecture prior to the evening opening of the exhibition.
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| Performance In Two Minds by Kevin Atherton
April 7th 4.00pm -Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee | Kevin Atherton perfored his video/performance work: In Two Minds, during the evening at 7.00pm. This work had not been seen for nearly 30 years and was a highlight of the weekend. On the Saturday at 12.00 noon Kevin also performed a new updated version of In Two Minds as a matinee in the DCA Cinema. |
| Roundtable Discussion April 8th 3.00pm - 5.00 pm DCA Meeting Room
April 7th 4.00pm -Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee | There was a roundtable discussion on Saturday April 8th with the Research team, members of the Advisory Panel and special guests including Tamara Krikorian, David Hall, Tony Sinden, Anna Ridley, David Curtis . |
| Re-staged Installations
April 7th 4.00pm -Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee | TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces), 1971, David Hall (VRC/DCA)
Behold Vertical Devices, Tony Sinden (DCA) Vanitas, 1979, Tamara Krikorian (VRC) Demolition/Escape,1983, Tina Keane (VRC)
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Exhibition Documentation
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Introduction to the Soft Launch:
Throughout the 1990s a deepening concern developed about the early works produced in the UK using film, video, performance and media installation. Because of their ephemeral nature and the unpredictable state of the technology, video works were in danger of disappearing altogether. This was not just to do with the fragile and decaying nature of the early technological media, but also because so little had been written down about the work. The hegemony of text in our culture can distort histories, leaving only hagiographies to compete and contradict one another. In early 2002 I was approached by Laura Mulvey, who had herself become concerned about early video.
She suggested that I might be well placed to develop a substantialresearch project to address both the issues of conservation and to write/record - from primary sources - an intelligible history of the form. I am deeply grateful for the advice and information I received over the following year, whilst developing the project from a great number of distinguished artists, scholars, curators, writers and arts administrators. REWIND is also very fortunate in having attracted a team of dedicated researchers and advisors of outstanding ability. Finally I would like to dedicate this launch event of REWIND to the pioneers of the form, who having left their mark and are no longer with us, including Ian Breakwell, John Latham, Stuart Marshall, Elsa Stansfield, and Nam June Paik.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN PARTRIDGE
Principal Investigator
February 2006
Evening Salon
| The Impact of British Art Schools on Early British Video Art
University of Westminster, Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005, 6pm - 8.30pm | What were the major academic areas of thought for video art production during the 70s and 80s and what was the impact on early British video art?
Jon Bewley Cate Elwes Rob Gawthrop Tine Keane Sharon Morris Chair: Jane Prophet Included: Stephen Partridge and Jackie Hatfield, introducing the REWIND research project. |