The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Dec 2013
In 2009, the year aft er Japanese electronics manufacturer JVC (Japan Victor Company), creator of... more In 2009, the year aft er Japanese electronics manufacturer JVC (Japan Victor Company), creator of the VHS format (Video Home System), ceased production of the last line of stand-alone VHS video recorders (Broadcast Engineering 2008), I undertook an artist's residency at VIVO Media Arts in Vancouver, Canada-part of an eight-month stay, dwelling in the city with my partner and son-to consider the aesthetic qualities of VHS video as a dwindling feature of home-video practices. I was interested particularly in the qualities of degraded VHS image and sound with respect to the circularity of relations between the materiality of VHS technology, the engineered recordings it has potentiated, the practices these have both aff orded, and the transformative eff ects of such practices on its materiality as they are evidenced in degrading picture and sound quality. My focus was drawn to the phenomenon of video rental as a spatial practice bound up with the material particularities of home-video technology and as a context of its intensive use associated with increased 'wear and tear' . With the generous assistance of VIVO and Limelight Video, my family's neighbourhood video library, my residency developed around a single rental VHS tape with respect to this idea.
A lecture-performance reflecting on exhibition strategies in Mike Nelson's exhibition, Gang of Se... more A lecture-performance reflecting on exhibition strategies in Mike Nelson's exhibition, Gang of Seven, at Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver and the role of fictionality in its production of multiple registers of audience encounter.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Dec 2013
In 2009, the year aft er Japanese electronics manufacturer JVC (Japan Victor Company), creator of... more In 2009, the year aft er Japanese electronics manufacturer JVC (Japan Victor Company), creator of the VHS format (Video Home System), ceased production of the last line of stand-alone VHS video recorders (Broadcast Engineering 2008), I undertook an artist's residency at VIVO Media Arts in Vancouver, Canada-part of an eight-month stay, dwelling in the city with my partner and son-to consider the aesthetic qualities of VHS video as a dwindling feature of home-video practices. I was interested particularly in the qualities of degraded VHS image and sound with respect to the circularity of relations between the materiality of VHS technology, the engineered recordings it has potentiated, the practices these have both aff orded, and the transformative eff ects of such practices on its materiality as they are evidenced in degrading picture and sound quality. My focus was drawn to the phenomenon of video rental as a spatial practice bound up with the material particularities of home-video technology and as a context of its intensive use associated with increased 'wear and tear' . With the generous assistance of VIVO and Limelight Video, my family's neighbourhood video library, my residency developed around a single rental VHS tape with respect to this idea.
A lecture-performance reflecting on exhibition strategies in Mike Nelson's exhibition, Gang of Se... more A lecture-performance reflecting on exhibition strategies in Mike Nelson's exhibition, Gang of Seven, at Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver and the role of fictionality in its production of multiple registers of audience encounter.
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