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: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
Recent Acquisitions
2022, 16:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 2157.02
Autobiology responds to cultural paradigms surrounding illness and identity from the vantage point of someone with a chronic immune disorder. Ross-Millard performs the alphabet in motion, using the by-product as a customised font with which to write an auto-theoretical essay on her experience with medical diagnosis. This piece… ⊕
2022, 10:17 minutes, colour
tapecode 2157.00
Gestures of anticipation glide across a retrofuturist scenography featuring a pastiche of brutalist and Bauhaus architecture, and other found imagery. Bright Future is the product of the artist’s choreographic research, surveying scientific-fictions inhabiting her body. These ritualistic scores are choreographed out of a… ⊕
Emily DiCarlo’s three-channel video installation The Propagation of Uncertainty (2020) explores the friction that occurs between, what she termed, “the infrastructure of time with the intimacy of duration.” The work focuses on time frequency standards and how our accelerated, networked world relies on the… ⊕
Am I Human? is a post-human exploration of data, artificial intelligence, and surveillance using video and sound. The glitch on screen disrupts communication and represents my questioning about the difficulty in being human in normative cultural standards.
This work was produced through The European Cultural Centre’s performance art workshops. During the summer intensive, I was given the opportunity to respond to Maya Deren’s film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). While studying the film, I was drawn to the use of doubling and reflection Deren achieved through camera… ⊕