︎ VHS/DTV ︎ ARTIST MOVING IMAGE ︎ 10 JULY
︎ VHS/DTV ︎ ARTIST MOVING IMAGE ︎ 10 JULY
VIDDY HORRORSHOW / DAYTIME VIEWING
VIDDY HORRORSHOW / DAYTIME VIEWING
ARTIST MOVING-IMAGE SHOWREEL
ARTIST MOVING-IMAGE SHOWREEL
11 JULY-17 AUGUST
OPENING SCREENING 10 JULY 19:00
Viddy Horrorshow/Daytime Viewing (VHS/DTV) is a showreel presentation of artist moving-image. The showreel is presented daily at TACO! across installed, multiple flat TV screens.
VHS/DTV brings together moving-image works by 17 artists selected through an open call by TACO! artist staff members Cillian Finnerty, e v, and Denny Kaulbach.
Each of the works presented share television as a reference point for video work. Formats like the game show, the chat show, and the ad break are borrowed from, subverted, and reframed as foggily-remembered progenitors of today’s hyper-targeted, short-format, and ‘democratised’ digital moving-image economy.
A limited edition DVD accompanies the project and is available to buy from the TACO! bookshop and online.
Our thanks to all contributing artists...
An old medium, built for mass consumption, built for the most mass of audiences. TV has been supplanted by the singular, by the insular. Where anyone used to be part of everyone, now you are you in particular. If the DIY stream is associated with the digital device, the flow of the televisual must be a slow-moving torrent of high production value, low-intensity content.
You barely register the images that flash by. The voices wash over you. They may or may not be speaking to you. Or rather, they’re speaking to who you’re most likely to be, statistically, or to who you might want to be, idealistically.
The slow-moving torrents of daytime programming have splintered into singular hand-held screens that are so much more intimate, that address us not as some vague, general consumer but as exactly as the consumer that we are, or that we soon will be.
VHS/DTV responds to that trace of a line zigzaging across the immediacy of the digital screen, and television as a historical communal form, with its constant stream of content for ‘everyone’, all the time.
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.
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.
For this special iteration, VHS curation has been undertaken by the network of artist -staff who work to host communities and groups at TACO! , keeping it open and running daily.
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.
Image: John Lawerence, The Fall
VHS/DTV brings together moving-image works by 17 artists selected through an open call by TACO! artist staff members Cillian Finnerty, e v, and Denny Kaulbach.
Each of the works presented share television as a reference point for video work. Formats like the game show, the chat show, and the ad break are borrowed from, subverted, and reframed as foggily-remembered progenitors of today’s hyper-targeted, short-format, and ‘democratised’ digital moving-image economy.
A limited edition DVD accompanies the project and is available to buy from the TACO! bookshop and online.
Our thanks to all contributing artists...
Aimée Neat
Charlie Osborne
Sophie Bates
Jacob Bullen
Joe Moss
Josh Wirz
Adam Knight
Chiemi Shimada
Brianna Beckford
Vont_Kant_&_The_Other_Guy
John Lawrence
Charlotte Yao
Jimmy Schaus
Serena Mirambeau Brey & Rosemary Moss
Chris Combs
Charlie Osborne
Sophie Bates
Jacob Bullen
Joe Moss
Josh Wirz
Adam Knight
Chiemi Shimada
Brianna Beckford
Vont_Kant_&_The_Other_Guy
John Lawrence
Charlotte Yao
Jimmy Schaus
Serena Mirambeau Brey & Rosemary Moss
Chris Combs
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An old medium, built for mass consumption, built for the most mass of audiences. TV has been supplanted by the singular, by the insular. Where anyone used to be part of everyone, now you are you in particular. If the DIY stream is associated with the digital device, the flow of the televisual must be a slow-moving torrent of high production value, low-intensity content.
You barely register the images that flash by. The voices wash over you. They may or may not be speaking to you. Or rather, they’re speaking to who you’re most likely to be, statistically, or to who you might want to be, idealistically.
The slow-moving torrents of daytime programming have splintered into singular hand-held screens that are so much more intimate, that address us not as some vague, general consumer but as exactly as the consumer that we are, or that we soon will be.
VHS/DTV responds to that trace of a line zigzaging across the immediacy of the digital screen, and television as a historical communal form, with its constant stream of content for ‘everyone’, all the time.
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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.
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.
For this special iteration, VHS curation has been undertaken by the network of artist -staff who work to host communities and groups at TACO! , keeping it open and running daily.
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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.
Image: John Lawerence, The Fall