About the book
The practice of Milan-based duo Taroni-Cividin constitutes one of the most groundbreaking yet rarely traversed areas of the Italian experimental performance archive. Active between 1977 and 1984 – during which they produced over 30 performances and films both in Italy and internationally – Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin pushed the edges of the live and the recorded, and of cinematic, bodily and spatial practices. In interaction with visual and installation work and through a highly personal use of video and audio technologies, they developed an approach to performance-making that continues to generate questions in some of the contemporary moment’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.
Jennifer Malvezzi and Flora Pitrolo (Eds), Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977-1984). Silvana Editoriale, 2023. Cover image credit: Taroni-Cividin, Decalage, 1981, Firenze. Photo by Gianni Melotti, Courtesy Archivio Gianni Melotti
Taroni Cividin
