Chiara Fumai. Medium, Media, Medium

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dc.contributor.author	Ragazzi Francesco
dc.title	Chiara Fumai. Medium, Media, Medium
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dc.description.abstract	Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been shown at both the Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion and Documenta. In her practice, the performer often quoted feminist texts while playing the role of a woman possessed. I give an account of Fumai’s use of video, comparing it to Rosalind Krauss’s essay Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism. I explain the artist’s work as a dialectic overcoming of the analogy the critic institutes between the notion of art medium and the figure of the Medium. Highlighting that both Fumai and Krauss see Acconci’s early works as a benchmark, I illustrate how the two built an archeology of contemporary mediality.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-11-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-10-01
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-362-5/002
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-363-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-362-5
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Biennale di Venezia
dc.subject	Biennale di Venezia
dc.subject	Chiara Fumai
dc.subject	Chiara Fumai
dc.subject	Medium
dc.subject	Medium
dc.subject	Rosalind Krauss
dc.subject	Rosalind Krauss
dc.subject	Video Art
dc.subject	Video Art
dc.subject	Vito Acconci
dc.subject	Vito Acconci

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Chiara Fumai. Medium, Media, Medium

Francesco Ragazzi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

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Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been shown at both the Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion and Documenta. In her practice, the performer often quoted feminist texts while playing the role of a woman possessed. I give an account of Fumai’s use of video, comparing it to Rosalind Krauss’s essay Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism. I explain the artist’s work as a dialectic overcoming of the analogy the critic institutes between the notion of art medium and the figure of the Medium. Highlighting that both Fumai and Krauss see Acconci’s early works as a benchmark, I illustrate how the two built an archeology of contemporary mediality.

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Keywords: Medium • Vito Acconci • Video Art • Biennale di Venezia • Rosalind Krauss • Chiara Fumai

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