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
Emily DiCarlo’s three-channel video installation The Propagation of Uncertainty (2020) explores the friction that occurs between what she terms “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… ⊕
Comment tenir le vide: 3 tentatives (How to hold the emptiness: 3 attempts)
2023, 07:53 minutes, colour
tapecode 543.17
This video is broken down into 3 chapters: Le Slow (slow dance), Le vent (the wind) and La barrière (the barrier). The central theme of loss in this performative work is portrayed through the attempt to hold onto breakable or intangible things. In the vast surrounding landscape, the actions are juxtaposed to the strong… ⊕
A couple stands in stillness, facing each other from two singular islands. Their bodies interrupting the endless blue surroundings. The movement of the tide and the light slowly transforms the landscape, altering both the terrain and their connection to each other. Time and shape become the continually changing measurements of… ⊕
The Density of Dust is a video installation that uses material collection and close listening to explore a centuries old industrial building’s history and its surroundings.History forms foundation, like earth and land—its layers are sedimented and lived in time, and collectively inform where we’re standing… ⊕
2021, 32:09 minutes, colour
tapecode 2140.02
Stone Tape: A haunting is an episodic video series that, through the lens of the haunting, examines the relationships between lands and the beings that live with and on them. Inspired by community conversation and environment and historical research in Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Stone Tape: A haunting seeks to ask… ⊕