The practice of Taroni-Cividin constitutes one of the most groundbreaking areas of the international experimental landscape. Active between 1977 and 1984, the two artists pushed at the edges of cinema and of performance, of the live and the recorded, developing a very personal language that continues to generate questions in some of the present time's most pressing debates. Taroni-Cividin. Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977-1984) seeks to do justice to the complexity and richness of Taroni-Cividin's work, giving the reader a sense of the theoretical perspectives that guided it, bringing to light precious archival materials, and critically re-examining a season of Italian contemporary art which has thus far been largely neglected.
Contents
Taroni-Cividin Kaleidoscope. Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977–1984)
Simone Venturini
Taroni-Cividin as Diamond Clearness
Jennifer Malvezzi, Flora Pitrolo
NEW STUDIES
The Missed Theater: Taroni-Cividin and Theatricality
Flora Pitrolo
The Last Possible Avant-garde. Time and Moving Image in Taroni-Cividin’s Expanded Cinema
Jennifer Malvezzi
Atypical and Utopian: the Integral Performance of Taroni-Cividin
Caterina Iaquinta
WRITINGS
Interference
Luisa Cividin, Roberto Taroni
Soufflée Letter to Four Friends
Roberto Taroni
The Shift of the Eye, or, the Waste of the Eye
Roberto Taroni
ARCHIVE
For “Cividin/Taroni”
Gianni Manzella
On Seeing and Understanding Images. Notes on the Work of Taroni-Cividin
Georg F. Schwarzbauer
Taroni-Cividin. Excess of Clues
Rossella Bonfiglioli
From Which, Exceptionally, Nothing Can Be Drawn (Superimposed onto Cividin/Taroni)
Giorgio Verzotti
APPENDICES
compiled by Giulia Govi Cavani
Performances
Films
Videos
Films and Video Screenings
Awards
Annotated Performance Works
Bibliography
Biographies