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REWIND + PLAY : an anthology of early British video art

Curatorial practice, based upon the 6 years of the Rewind research project and the subsequent collection of works. The Rewind collection numbers some 450 works including 150 installations and derives from the nine years of the Rewind research project led by Partridge, who built a unique archive based on rediscovered exemplars in the field and the consequent collection of works. Since 2006 the collection has been consulted by a number of curators who have used the archive and collection for their own exhibitions, which has underscored the field and established videoart as part of the fabric of contemporary practice. The innovation exhibited by the practitioners of videoart have subsequentially become subsumed by mainstream broadcasting, a testament to the foresight of the field. This has helped to restore a number of artists to international attention.

This anthology was co-curated by Partridge and Cook, who worked together on the curation with the most important criteria being which works offered the anthology an optimum and representative set of 24 works from the first decade of video art. The anthology is a three disc DVD box set of the re-mastered works, and the box includes a booklet with an introductory essay by Sean Cubitt. The anthology was launched at Tate Modern (2010) and Stills Gallery in October 2010 and featured at TATE Britain’s Lightbox from May 7th – June 28th 2010.

The total running time of the DVDs is 336 minutes.