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Recent Acquisitions

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.

Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)

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Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (drawing)

Leena Raudvee

2023, 21:55 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 2143.03

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This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar… ⊕

Work Hard Have Fun Make History

Tasman Richardson

2025, 04:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 575.72

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Coopting its name from an internal Amazon.com motto, this video collage transforms riot and protest footage into a pulsing techno anthem, where sirens pitch into melodies, news clips become percussion, and the roar of crowds drives a relentless march. Classical paintings of revolution, overlaid with corporate slogans, collide… ⊕

Echo Chambers

Tasman Richardson

2025, 25:33 minutes

tapecode 575.71

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Echo Chambers presents three chapters of video collage constructed entirely from Instagram's algorithmically-suggested content. The work functions as a digital self-portrait, documenting the recursive feedback loop between personal influence and algorithmic manipulation where the act of collecting material fundamentally alters… ⊕

Never Not Nothing

Tasman Richardson

2025, 05:55 minutes, colour

tapecode 575.70

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This audiovisual performance transforms video feedback into both sight and sound through an analog-digital feedback loop. Using a vintage camcorder aimed at a CRT television, the artist generates evolving feedback patterns. The video signal is simultaneously diverted to audio inputs—visual information literally becomes… ⊕

In Video Traction

Clive Robertson

1977

tapecode 067.14

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In Video Traction is a single-channel video by Clive Robertson that was shot on a set in the Grand Luxe Hall designed to simulate a hospital room and waiting area. The video combines performance documentation with a dialogue staged between Robertson and Hank Bull. The video, subtitled “Act 1: The Encoding and Decoding… ⊕

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