These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. Not all of the videos are necessarily new, as older works are sometimes brought into distribution.
Recent Acquisitions
Aesop Hand Soap, made following the end of a relationship, is about gifts - the giving and receiving of them.
2018, 19:26 minutes
tapecode 247.06
…. in the company of magnificent beings, quietly standing, looking, listening….This is the first of four in a series of performances with trees in various seasons. The white pines in this small groove are all that remain of an immense old growth forest that once covered this area. The interactive, being present… ⊕
Angakusajaujuq - The Shaman's Apprentice
Zacharias Kunuk, Kingulliit Productions
2021, 21:00 minutes
tapecode 219.91
A stop motion project directed by Zacharias Kunuk, featuring Madeline Ivalu, Lucy Tulugarjuk, and Jacky Qrunnut. Music from Beatrice Deer.A young shaman must face her first test—a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Facing dark spirits and… ⊕
This is a remount of a classic experimental video by artist Lisa Steele called Birthday Suit - with scars and defects (1974). It's not the first and might not be the last remake, but it's a 5-minute video that explores most of my scars, and it brings my own personal agenda to the game. I made it with the help of community and… ⊕
Body Wrap emerged through my desire to live up to my hypervisibility. As a queer, visibly disabled, person of colour, the choice to be invisible was never an option. Being invisible was always an unknowable elsewhere. And in performance art, which has a history of using the body as an art-tool, my body always seemed to include… ⊕