Collection contains over 1,300 video and audio tapes created by members or affiliates of the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The collection includes works created between 1975 and 2012.
Item consists of a video recording by Suzanne Cameron entitled "36 Corner Stores Project". The disc includes 4 black and white images and 2 spread for "Free Coffee".
Item consists of a video recording by Andy Dowden entitled "Symphony for the Garden". The video features "The Girls Wedding", "Erik’s Memory", "Third Rose", "C", "Growing In", "Growing Out", "A Bolero", and "Playing Butterflies with Kharista".
Item consists of a video recording entitled "On the Fly 4 Festival of Video Shorts: Tape 1 First-Time Directors". The tape features: "Soiled", "The Piano Tuner", "Dirty Habit", "Son of Denmark", "Anonymous", "Fanatics", "The Pick-up", "Amateur Night", "Close Your Eyes", and "Spaceman".
Item consists of a video recording by Wis Johnston, Lucas Steinman, Nick Dywelska and Chantel Tardiff entitled "Electronic Residency". The video features electronic residency prototype demonstrations and creative sound projects.
Item consists of the video recordings: :Construct + Conflict" by Jeff Wheaton, "For the Love of my Life" by S. T. Elliot and Guang Zhu Duh, "South Halifax North" by Bradenn Cannon, "Cliffe Street" by Chris Gills, "Try Opening the Box"and "Incomprehensible Contents, Listen" by Shi-Eun Kim.
Item consists of video recordings by Suzanna Cameron entitled "36 Halifax Grocery Stores: 36 Years Later". The videos are of interviews with people inside Halifax's corner stores.
Item consists of a video recording by David Clark entitled "For the Time Being". The video was created through the CFAT Artists in Residence program, “For the Time Being” references both surrealism and Dada. Beginning with a ticking metronome, a replicate of Man Ray’s “Indestructible Object,” the narrator recites one of the André Breton’s automatic poems while bodies move on and off screen as if pendulums
Item consists of a video recording of the "The Idea of the North" exhibition. The exhibition has been described as: "The Idea of North is a three-[art exhibition of contemporary art from Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden that addresses the concept of the locality of sound. It is the result of a collaboration between curators in Canada (Rhonda Corvese), Iceland (Solveig Alda Halldorsdottir and Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir), and Norway (Yngvild Faeroy and Sossa Jorgensen). This collaborative curatorial process has brought together three diverse groups of artists in three distinct exhibitions in Norway, Iceland, and Canada, and each exhibition has included installations and sound art works from these countries in different configurations."
