For National Indigenous History Month, Vtape presents Butterfly Monument, a tribute to the young Cree education advocate Shannen Koostachin, by Jules Koostachin & Rick Miller. ⊕

With REFLECTION / REFRACTION we are doing a virtual version of this love letter to our artists. Every Friday we will launch a title selected by one of the Vtape staff, accompanied by a personal statement as to why this work speaks to them. ⊕

Congratulations to Jenn E Norton, whose installation at this year’s Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid, hosted by Vtape, was awarded Best Exhibition! ⊕

Five Vtape artists are among this year’s winners of the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual and Media Arts – Deanna Bowen, Dana Claxton, Ruth Cuthand, Jorge Lozano, and Zainub Verjee. They join the 26 other artists whose works are in distribution at Vtape who have received the award since its inception in 1999. ⊕

ariella tai will be exploring black performance and cultural vernacular as techniques towards subversion, interruption and obfuscation in video work during their residency at Vtape. ⊕