Diasporic Futurisms (Adrienne Mathesuzik and Vanessa Godden) would like to invite you to the launch of their virtual database, Temporal Tempest, at Critical Distance Centre for Curators on January 18, 2024 at 5pm. ⊕

ONLINE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 TO FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, right here at vtape.org. Vtape and Viral Interventions are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA). ⊕

If you missed the December 4th in-person screening, you can find the FOGGY program online December 5 – 10, courtesy of the Toronto Queer Film Festival. How can family memories inform practices of solidarity? How can avant-garde voices engaging the past contribute to activism today? How do private archives queer public histories? How do yesterday’s photographs become tomorrow’s pictures? Foggy is a screening of recent short films that stage hybrid acts of fragmentation, juxtaposition, re-enactment and dialogue. ⊕

November 24 at 7:00 pm, at the Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. W., join C Magazine and Vtape
for the premiere screening of Lisa Smolkin’s Grafter (2022), and her subsequent performance in response to a text written by art critic and curator Charlene K. Lau, as predicted by the cosmos. Admission free; first come, first seated! ⊕

Enjoy this oral walkthrough of Dana Claxton’s video work, presented in the recent Vtape / imagineNATIVE exhibition The Dreaming: Dana Claxton’s Video Work, curated by Winston Xin ⊕