Art Metropole

#10465

Anamnesia : Unforgetting : Polytemporality, implacement and possession in The Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive

Date

2013

Publisher

VIVO Media Arts Centre

Format

Video

Details

DVD & Book

Size

11 × 1.7 cm

Anamnesia: Unforgetting was a series of video screenings that explored polytemporality, implacement and possession in the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive, originally collected through the early Satellite Video Exchange program. Emerging out of Intermedia, the Satellite Video Exchange collection documents important correspondence, performance and activist video collaborations in Vancouver’s art history. The publication is 200 pages, with 16 colour plates of video stills, plus numerous black and white photographs of the original video library and viewing lounge at 261 Powell Street, postcards, letters, and day book scans from the archive’s print collection. It features texts by Sharon Bradley, Amy Kazymerchyk, Donato Mancini, Alex Muir and Cecily Nicholson, and an interview with Crista Dahl, one of the founding members of the Satellite Video Exchange Society (known at various times as The Video Inn, Video In, and VIVO Media Arts Centre). The accompanying three-DVD box set of the curated screenings features restorations of twenty-eight short art videos from the 1970s and 1980s. (Note: DVDs are for home-use only and are not authorized for public exhibition or distribution) http://anamnesia.vivomediaarts.com