︎VIDDY HORROR SHOW ︎ NINA DAVIES
︎VIDDY HORROR SHOW ︎ NINA DAVIES
27 APRIL / 20:00
Free Event Food and Drink availableSCREENING
Nina DAVIES
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 Nina Davies 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.
Previous research projects have included; the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices.
Her work has recently been exhibited and shown at Matt’s Gallery, London; Transmediale, AdK, Berlin; Seventeen, London; Pradiauto, Madrid; and, Chemist Gallery, London. Her work has been selected to partake in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023; Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.
In 2021 Nina and artist Niamh Schmidtke started Future Artefacts FM, a broadcast/podcast featured on RTM which platforms audio work by artists who work with fiction. In 2022 they were awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme of new commissions and in 2023 they produced a miniseries for Het HEM’s online programme The Couch.
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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Working primarily with video, performance, writing and installation, Nina Davies considers current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments from which they emerge. Previous research projects have included; the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices.
Her work has recently been exhibited and shown at Matt’s Gallery, London; Transmediale, AdK, Berlin; Seventeen, London; Pradiauto, Madrid; and, Chemist Gallery, London. Her work has been selected to partake in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023; Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.
In 2021 Nina and artist Niamh Schmidtke started Future Artefacts FM, a broadcast/podcast featured on RTM which platforms audio work by artists who work with fiction. In 2022 they were awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme of new commissions and in 2023 they produced a miniseries for Het HEM’s online programme The Couch.