Discover what’s new at Vtape! These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the past six months. New acquisitions can include older works that have recently been brought into distribution.
Recent Acquisitions
A networked planet; an improvised signal; the last swan. Filmed on the northern shores of Lake Ontario, amid the ruined utopic architecture of Ontario Place, Cygnus takes the geodesic-domed Cinesphere (the first permanent installation of IMAX), a sunken lake freighter turned breakwater, and an invasive mute swan as subjects of… ⊕
Omiwatari is a meditation on the cultural losses of climate change. Shot in rural Japan during the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Australia was on fire, local people witness the first year in memory that Lake Suwa, site of a millennia-old phenomenon, remained ice-free all winter.The Tenaga Jinja shrine holds the… ⊕
Precarious Gestures is a split-screen black-and-white video. Two cameras record a performance simultaneously. On the left there is a fixed wide-angle view from the floor. On the right a hand-held close-up camera follows me through the space.This is a video of my daily ritual of allowing myself to fall and then struggling to get… ⊕
1200 digital paintings, drawn by the artist, interpreted by gauGAN, the AI app. Each iteration has been an attempt to steer a narrative, not knowing how each step would be interpreted by the AI. I draw, it responds, then I respond with small revisions, always building on the previous result. Each landscape was built up slowly… ⊕
Sampled FM radio transmissions from around the earth and their landscapes as viewed by satellite. The fragments are heavily cross-pollinated to produce an omnipresent survey of our relentlessly witnessed world.Performed at Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2018. Commissioned by Bear Witness of A Tribe Called Red for his curated… ⊕