Index

Contents

Foreword
Siegfried Zielinski vii 

Preface
Laura Mulvey xi

Introduction
Laura Leuzzi 1 

Chapter 1
Self/Portraits: The Mirror, The Self and The Other. Identity and Representation in Early Women’s Video Art in Europe
Laura Leuzzi 7

Chapter 2
Natural Interruptions
Adam Lockhart 25 

Chapter 3
Desire for More
Cinzia Cremona 41

Chapter 4
On Women’s Video Art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969–91
Jon Blackwood 55

Chapter 5
Slender Margins and Delicate Tensions: Projects by European Video Pioneers Stansfield/Hooykaas
Malcolm Dickson 67

Chapter 6
Elaine Shemilt in-conversation with Sean Cubitt 83 

Chapter 7
Concretising the illogical: Immaterial Identities in Early Women’s Video Art
Emile Josef Shemilt 101

Chapter 8 
Without a trace ... ?
Stephen Partridge 111

Chapter 9 
With Child: Motherhood and women’s video in the 1980s
Catherine Elwes 123

Chapter 10 
Feminism, Ireland and Women’s Video Art in the 1980s
Maeve Connolly 139

Chapter 11
Highly Limited Access: Women and Early Video Art in Poland
Marika Kuźmicz 157

Chapter 12
Creating Crossroads: European Women’s Closed-Circuit Video
Slavko Kacunko 177 

Chapter 13
Early ‘Female’ Video Experiments in Nordic Countries in the 1970s and 1980s
Lorella Scacco 195

Selected Bibliography 209
Biographies of the Contributors 211
Index 217 


donated by Laura Leuzzi