Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe
Exhibition at FMAC Geneva
The exhibition examines the beginnings of video art in Switzerland and its resonance in Europe in the 1970s. Performances, television criticism, installations and video manipulations show how this medium has been involved in the development of the visual arts.
Chapter 1 - 1969-1974: February 20 to March 19, 2025
Chapter 2 - 1975-1979: March 27 to April 23, 2025
»Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe« deals with the first steps of video art in Switzerland and its connections to the European art movements of the 1970s. The exhibition is divided into two chapters. It shows how the medium changed the visual arts of the time. Video became a tool for experimentation and innovation, used to create performances, reflect on questions of identity, criticize television, and conceive art installations. The exhibition presents a variety of practices and then shows their evolution through the manipulation of the audiovisual signal to produce new images. Works from the FMAC's video collection are exhibited alongside European creations, offering a rich dialogue between similarities, differences, influences or simple coincidences.
Exhibition venue
Collection d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (Contemporary Art Collection of the City of Geneva)
In cooperation with
SNSF (ECAL-HES-SO), ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche (National Research Agency) Paris-8), ZKM Center for Art and Media, Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems
