1976
Motovun '76: Identitet=Identità
Istria - Yugoslavia
Description
Italian artists took part to the Motovun video encounter in 1976 : Andrea Varisco, Luigi Viola, Paolo Caradazzo, Claudio Ambrosini, Michele Sambin, Mario 'Picolo' Sillani Djerrahian, Luciano Celli et Enzo Pitacco.
"The meeting in Motovun in 1974 had a follow up two years later, when the Croatian artists who took part in the Motovun event organised a gathering of Italian and Yugoslavian video-artists and video-producers in Zagreb. It was decided there thata the following meeting, that would take place in August of the same year, would mainly focus on video. The Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb, gave its support and officially took part in the project with three artists, Sanja Ivekovic, Dalibor Martinis and Goran Trbuljak accompained by the Experimental Department Director, Marijan Susovski. On that occasion more than twenty videos were produced, whose theme was identify. During this meeting the Italian and Yugoslavian artists discussed the possibility of continuing the experience through seminars in other places. Initially Zagreb was suggested, but as the venue lacked the necessary technical equipment, Venice was proposed as the ideal place where the videos created during the meeting could be arranged and where new ones could be produces." (Source : Paolo Cardazzo, La stagione del video dans Dino Marangon, I videotapes del Cavallino, Venezia, Edizioni del Cavallino, 2004 dans Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge (eds.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016, p. 127).
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Contributor(s)
Sanja Iveković
Dalibor Martinis
Michele Sambin
Goran Trbuljak
Luigi Viola
Claudio Ambrosini