01 Jan 1971
Videolibro n°1, Improvvisazioni su videonastro VPL 6 IC, Videoregistratore LDL 1000, Telecamera Mini Compact
Rome - Italy
Description
"On the 4 May a video-evening was organised, in coordination with Francesco Carlo Crispolti leading to the catalogue Videolibro n°1, Improvvisazioni su videonastro VPL 6 IC, Videoregistratore LDL 1000, Telecamera Mini Compact (Videobook No.1, Improvisations on VPL 6 IC videotape, Videotape recorder LDL 1000, Video camera Mini Compact). Compiled in Italian, English and French and complete with a glossary and a biblography, Videolibro n°1 opens by presenting the programm and its scope: "Video-recording, therefore, as a new form; telecamera and videotape as memory, direct shot, provocation, dissent from official channels, happening, gesture, presence, uncertainty, spontaneity, Chinese puzzles, and an unlimited number of other possibilities for the visual arts, this time framed within the broader concept of information ... - Crispolti goes on - Video-recording offers a channel precisely for those efforts of modern art, aimed at penetrating the internal possibilities of the flow of reality". (Source : Francesco Carlo Crispolti, Videolibro n°1, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, 1971 dans Silvia Bordini, "Memoria del video: Italia anni Settanta", Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016, p. 55-56)