Vtape: Islands in the Stream

Vtape is a video art distributor that represents an international collection of contemporary and historical video art, documentaries, and installations. Vtape’s Curatorial Incubator v.19: Island in the Streams program features two screenings of projects that explore collections, how they are accessed online as never-ending digital repositories, and how we can interrupt the stream to create new moments for refuge.

What happened to produce these ruins?, curated by Muriel N. Kahwagi considers moving-image works’ ability to leave a material trace of places, becoming accidental archives that document disappearing landscapes.

Kai Trotz-Motayne’s program Where do our memories go? explores the changing landscape of Caribbean communities in Toronto and how rituals are passed on and reconstructed through generations.

The campaign design plays with these themes of traces, accidents, disappearance, change, and reconstruction through lettering illustrations where words are repeated, fragmented, and distorted. The illustrations were produced by manipulating text by hand on a flatbed scanner.

All typography uses a few styles of Classic Grotesque, and Vtape’s logo is set in Zeitgeist Bold.