This survey of one of Canada’s premier new media artists includes photographs, projections, websites and moving image works that span time and space effortlessly. The centrepiece is Skawennati’s exquisitely crafted machinima She Falls For Ages (2017) that reimagines Creation from a very specific indigenous point of view. ⊕
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imagineNATIVE’s Art Crawl: an artist’s talk by Skawennati, Oct. 20, 8:30pm
Artist’s talk, Friday October 20, 2017, 8:30pm Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor @401 Richmond St. W. The exhibition runs through October 21 Open Thursday, Oct. 19, 1-5pm; Friday, Oct. 20, 10am-noon & 5-9pm; and Saturday, Oct. 21, 12-5pm Skawennati’s talk… ⊕
State of Blackness Database Research: Phase 1
This summer, Vtape is supporting Phase 1 of curator/scholar Andrea Fatona’s crucial research project the State of Blackness Database. Guided by Fatona (OCADU) and Vtape Artistic Director Lisa Steele, researcher Elisha Lim has been commissioned to compile data on Black… ⊕
Vtape’s 2017 Researcher/Curator-in-residence is Lewis Kaye.
“Hearing Video” is a project that is part exhibition, part archival research experiment. It explores and plays with a number of works drawn from Vtape’s archive holdings selected on the basis of their audio rather than their visual content. By… ⊕
Vtape at Oberhausen
Sunday, May 14, 2017 Vtape presents its annual distributor screening at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, featuring three recent works from our distribution collection: Beneath the Air (Director: Jesi Jordan, Canada, 2014); Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon (Director: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, Canada, 2016); À Vancouver | In Vancouver (Director: Vincent Chevalier, Canada, 2016). ⊕
Since opening our doors in 1983, Vtape has presented a substantial program of screenings, exhibitions, artists’ talks, and publications. Events from 2012 to the present are represented here in this archive. This online resource reflects a combination of event-based programming, exhibitions, and education dedicated to the development of video art and new and diverse audiences. The Past Events Archive is organized by year, starting with the most recent events, and moving backwards through history.
Image credit: Installation view of God Play exhibition, October 2024; photo by Henry Chan (2024)