︎VIDDY HORROR SHOW ︎ Aoibheann GREENAN
︎VIDDY HORROR SHOW ︎ Aoibheann GREENAN
18 MaY / 20:00
Free Event Food and Drink availableSCREENING:
Aoibheann GREENAN
Viddy Horrorshow (VHS) is a regular film screening event at TACO! where each session is curated by an invited contributor, presenting a selection of expanded moving image material. For the next iteration artist Aoibheann Greenan has been invited to select materials.
VHS screenings are non-hierarchical in their approach, presenting a flat, horizontal view across a range of moving image content in linear juxtaposition, leaving open the possibility of connections and relationships for the viewer. Selected content can include any form of moving image - from music videos, trailers and artists’ films to commercials, archive footage, web shorts, social media, documentaries and occasional features.
VHS takes its title as an acronym from Anthony Burgess’ nadsat vocabulary – a fictional language of ‘a not-too-distant future’ - in the writer’s novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). ‘Viddy’ means to ‘see’ or ‘look,’ and ‘horrorshow’ indicates ‘well’ or ‘good’.
The VHS series was initated by Frances Scott and Mat Jenner in 2018 as part of Scott’s research project Wendy.
Aoibheann is a resident of Somerset House Studios. Her work has been presented at South London Gallery, Tate Modern, Raven Row, The KW Institute, IMMA, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, EVA International, New Contemporaries and Film London’s Selected Program. She is a cofounder of artist collective East London Cable.
VHS screenings are non-hierarchical in their approach, presenting a flat, horizontal view across a range of moving image content in linear juxtaposition, leaving open the possibility of connections and relationships for the viewer. Selected content can include any form of moving image - from music videos, trailers and artists’ films to commercials, archive footage, web shorts, social media, documentaries and occasional features.
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VHS takes its title as an acronym from Anthony Burgess’ nadsat vocabulary – a fictional language of ‘a not-too-distant future’ - in the writer’s novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). ‘Viddy’ means to ‘see’ or ‘look,’ and ‘horrorshow’ indicates ‘well’ or ‘good’.
The VHS series was initated by Frances Scott and Mat Jenner in 2018 as part of Scott’s research project Wendy.
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Aoibheann Greenan is an Irish artist based in London. Her practice works cross moving image, performance, installation, sculpture, costume and drawing, and probes the tension between capture and escape inherent in commodified experiences. Her fictional rituals blend elements from digital culture, neuroscience, cultural history, and esotericism, to imagine alternate forms of agency within neoliberal structures. Aoibheann is a resident of Somerset House Studios. Her work has been presented at South London Gallery, Tate Modern, Raven Row, The KW Institute, IMMA, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, EVA International, New Contemporaries and Film London’s Selected Program. She is a cofounder of artist collective East London Cable.