Remote Preparation: Curatorial Essay + Video Screening, V-Tape, Toronto
Curator of Remote Preparation, as part of the Curatorial Incubator v. 15, What the F**K?!: Video in the Age of Sublime Uncertainty
Read Curatorial Publication here.
VTape, Toronto, ON (December 1, 2019), guest mentored by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick.
Image credit: Mary, by Kent Monkman (2011)
VTAPE PRESENTS
Guest Mentors: Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 401 Richmond, 4th floor
Saturday, December 1, 2018
1-5pm
to be continued on December 8, 2018
1-5pm
This year, Vtape invited Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick to develop the theme for, and guest-mentor, the Curatorial Incubator. They called for curatorial proposals that reflected on the psychic and cultural shock unleashed by the political crisis in democracy. Respondents were asked to consider video’s affective power to focus attention, engage critique, forge relations, and invent ways of collective feeling that re-imagine aspiration, consolation and freedom.
Four emerging curators and curatorial teams were selected and their programs will be screened on consecutive Saturdays: Almudena Escobar López and Masaki Kondo on December 1; Mel Day and Isabelle and Sophie Lynch on December 8.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.
Vtape is Canada's leading artist-run, not-for-profit distributor of video art. Its extensive and diverse collection features works from the early 1970s to the present. Vtape makes this collection accessible to curators and programmers, educators, scholars and public audiences worldwide. In addition to providing a distribution framework for established and emerging artists, Vtape is committed to establishing video art preservation and exhibition standards, and strives to support hybrid practices in an increasingly complex technical milieu.
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Vtape is Canada’s leading artist-run, not-for-profit distributor of video art. Featuring more than 1,000 artists and over 5,000 titles, Vtape’s diverse collection includes works from the early 1970s to the present.