VTAPE: TALES FROM THE CRYPT

Please join us at Vtape for the first in an occasional screening series entitled TALES FROM THE CRYPT*.

FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION:
video art and the face

curated by
KAITLIN TILL-LANDRY

Screening and curator's talk
Friday, November 28, 2008
Screening @ 6 & 7:30pm
Curator's talk @ 7:00pm

This programme will be available on request through
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Self-Portrait (Made-up), Alice Evensen

For over a decade, Vtape has developed an intensive and multi-faceted intern training programme for students and members of the interested public. With this programme - FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION: video art and the face - Vtape offers a showcase for the curatorial talents of one of our recent interns.

Some background: In 2006-7, Kaitlin Till-Landry worked as a technical intern at Vtape. During this period of time, she managed the restoration of the early video artwork of Martha Wilson, the founder of Franklin Furnace (New York) and a pioneering feminist artist whose works from her time at NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax) have become part of the canon of early feminist video art. Kaitlin Till-Landry, still a student herself, worked directly with Martha Wilson to ensure that the restoration conformed to the artist's standards.

This process solidified Till-Landry's interest in the connection that many of her contemporaries have with the idea of "the face" as a site for their explorations of identity and engagement. As a result, she put together this programme that combines the works of artists from the early 1970s with works from the immediate present.

Landry's thoughts on this intriguing programme: "In the 1970s, many artists approached the face as a focal point within the unlimited possibilities of video as a newly accessible medium. Largely, in the 80s and 90s video work stepped back from this tight framing. Over thirty years later, a resurgence in video works that center on the face incorporate advances in post-production and accessibility providing a basis for investigation into the way artists interact with the medium within this intimate framing."

*TALES FROM THE CRYPT is one of Vtape's curatorial mentorship programmes that provide opportunities for emerging curators to work with media artworks in creative and challenging ways. With TALES FROM THE CRYPT, Vtape encourages our interns to develop programmes centred around the works that they (the interns themselves) have restored or researched. Often, their efforts have brought works of historical importance back into circulation, both as artworks and also as documents of historically significant events. TALES FROM THE CRYPT will allow the public to engage with these re-discoveries.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT.
FROM FOUNDATION TO FIXATION:
video art and the face

The Contest, Liz Knox, 2:45min. 2004
Deformation, Martha Wilson, 8:00. 1972
Pryings, Vito Acconci, 6:00. [excerpt from 21:00min.] 1971
Self-Portrait (Made-up), Alice Evensen, (silent) 6:00min. 2005
The Art of Autobiography: Redux I, Dana C. Inkster, 5:00min. 2006
full effect, Jeremy Bailey, 2:00min. 2005
Kiss. Robert Bowers, (silent) 5:30min. 1971
Self Portrait, Nolan Natasha, 1:45. 2003

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