Tasman Richardson
Tasman Richardson began his practice in 1996 by pioneering his audio/visual cut up method known as Jawa. He went on to revise the technique from a strictly studio-based edit to live MIDI triggered performance and has since taught workshops on scavenging and structuring content with the technique.
He co-founded the FAMEFAME media arts collective in 2002 and launched the international a/v tournament Videodrome with his FAMEFAME cohorts Jubal Brown, Elenore Chesnutt, and Josh Avery.
His work expanded to include installation in 2012 with the exhibition of his six room, 2000 square foot construction of Necropolis, first housed in Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. He then produced the bookend of his critique of self reflection and mediated gaze with his installation Kali Yuga, first housed at Arsenal Contemporary in Montreal.
He has collaborated, exhibited, and performed internationally for over two decades.
His themes to date have been a critical response to recordings which he dubbed "contemporary necromancy", social media as a "voluntary surveillance state", video as "a soul without a body", and imperfect mediated reflections.
Videography
2022, 04:07 minutes, colour, no dialogue
Twenty-one Improvised Extinctions
2020, 01:20 minutes, colour, no dialogue
2020, 18:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue
Darkness Is to Space As Silence Is to Sound
2018, 16:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue
2015, 11:19 minutes, colour, English
2012, 02:10 minutes, colour, English
2012, 12:58 minutes
2011, 17:00 minutes
2010, 05:15 minutes, B&W
2010, 04:25 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:38 minutes, colour, English
The Vision, the Voice, and the Void
2009, 03:00 minutes, B&W
Weird War Tales (re-edited condensed version)
2007, 09:11 minutes, colour, English
2007, 20:23 minutes, colour, English
2007, 11:48 minutes, colour, English
2007, 03:52 minutes, colour, English
2006, 02:39 minutes, colour, English
2006, 17:05 minutes, colour/B&W, English
I Stole The Soul of Rock n Roll
2005, 06:28 minutes, colour, English
2005, 03:46 minutes, colour, English
2005, 03:56 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Goin' Back to Kali
2004, 04:00 minutes, Colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Delete Yourself
2004, 01:00 minutes, Colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Destro My Tokyo
2004, 05:22 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Blackest Sabbath
2003, 06:00 minutes, colour & B/W, English
2002, 01:30 minutes
2002, 02:50 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: And They Shall Know Us by the Trail of Kung Fu
2002, 02:00 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Vader Lives
2002, 03:00 minutes, B & W, English
2001, 03:00 minutes, colour
2001, 02:14 minutes, colour
2001, 05:01 minutes, colour
2001, 04:33 minutes, colour
Mother May I Sleep with Danger?
2001, 01:03 minutes
2001, 01:40 minutes
2000, 05:06 minutes, colour
2000, 17:45 minutes, colour
1999, 01:22 minutes, colour
1997, 00:40 minutes, colour/B&W
1997, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W
1997, 01:54 minutes, colour/B&W
1996, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W
Critical Writing
by . The Toronto Star, Apr. 3, 2008.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2008.
by . Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2001.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2001.
Toronto: Vtape, 1999.