On View: Exhibition Announcement

Digital exhibit

Wendy Clarke: Love Is All Around

Video Data Bank

February 12, 2025 through April 15, 2025  

Video Data Bank is pleased to celebrate Valentine's Day (and beyond) with Wendy Clarke's "Love Tapes" (2011) in a new VDB TV program! VDB's Archive and Collection Manager, Kristin MacDonough, has curated a selection of five excerpts from Clarke's iconic series “Love Tapes,” a collection of video recordings of 2,500 people from diverse backgrounds who share their personal feelings about love. This winter, Kristin spoke with the artist at length about the "Love Tapes," and the interview is available to read alongside the program.

Love, as described throughout the tapes, is not defined by any one singular meaning, but is instead contextualized by the variety of personal perspectives and experiences within this collection. These interpretations of love explore lust, friendship, first love, and familial love. The "Love Tapes" project consists of dozens of edited tapes from 1977-2011 and is ongoing. This VDB TV program highlights "Love Tapes" recently remastered for preservation by Clarke and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Digital exhibit: https://www.vdb.org/vdb-tv

For more information, contact:

Kristin Mac Donough kristin@vdb.org

Video Data Bank

www.vdb.org  

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