{"id":9748,"date":"2017-05-08T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2017\/05\/08\/contemporary-revisions\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T22:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:28:57","slug":"contemporary-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/contemporary-revisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year Loop<\/em> is fifteen years old and brings with it a gift, under the guidance of two classics of the genre, Eugeni Bonet and Antoni Mercader (spoiler alert: next week we\u2019re interviewing them at A*DESK). One that delves into the history of the pioneers of video and brings to light documents and works that are essential to recuperate, digitalise, make accessible and showcase our theoretical and artistic patrimony. <\/p>\n

Albert Alcoz has curated for Arts Santa M\u00f2nica an exhibition that is like an iceberg because it shows only part (a selection of historic pieces by pioneering artists) of a very important collection of documents and catalogues (specifically 35 items to document the irruption of video art in Spain 1974-1990 with the good news that is available online<\/a><\/em>) , one that contributes to regenerate a triple confluence: a specific historical and political moment + certain artistic attitudes + media that make the generation of new languages possible. <\/p>\n

This is a cocktail that it is important doesn\u2019t fall into oblivion so that our artistic and cultural scene can have some references with which to dialogue so as not to become a scenario defined by uniform mainstream references.<\/p>\n

(Re)visionats (re)visitats<\/em> reminds us that in the mid 70s, Spain lived a complex political situation with a dictatorship living its last breaths but still very much present (and, this wasn\u2019t known then but is now, leaving everything \u201cdone and dusted\u201d for later decades). In this context, a series of artists expand the stereotype of belonging to specific social class, incorporating into their works political and feminist perspectives; critically analysing the strategies of the new media of the moment, film and television; calling for critical perception of the spectators and exploring the new possibilities of video as a creative tool. <\/p>\n