LOVE TAPES AT THE DARC
LOVE TAPES AT THE DARC
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If you could have every person on the planet make a Love Tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human. —Wendy Clarke
Tuesday May 13-Friday May 16 12 - 5 PM
+ Saturday May 17 12-3 PM
UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center Dark Lab/ DARC 108 [map]
+ Record your own Love Tape! Thursday May 15 and Friday May 16 1-5 PM
UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center DARC 151
[book a time at the link]
exhibition is free and open to the public
Given her first video equipment in 1972 by her mother, filmmaker and video artist Shirley Clarke, artist Wendy Clarke recorded herself and made video diary entries which oftentimes centered on themes of love. Expanding her practice to others, Clarke first asked members of her community and then the public their feelings about love, and the video project Love Tapes was born.
Clarke has recorded Love Tapes from people from all over the world and has amassed a collection of 2,500 tapes which are in the archives at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
How the Love Tapes started: a short history
Wendy Clarke
In 1977, I showed a tape from my video diary in which I talked about love to students at the University of California, Los Angeles. After they watched my video, I asked each person to sit alone in front of the camera and monitor and talk spontaneously for 3 minutes about their own experience with love. We played the song "I’m in the Mood for Love" in the background. Together, we watched the play-back of all their videos and the Love Tapes process and format was born.
Since then, over 2,500 people from many walks of life and diverse cultures have added their Love Tape to the growing collection. I retired my initial video diary and used the Love Tapes of others to inspire even more Love Tapes.
I’ve made Love Tapes in so many places — private homes, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, in a van on the streets of Chicago, a mall in Santa Monica, a federal prison in NYC, a college in Miami, and in the lobby of the World Trade Center. My dream has always been to have the Love Tapes include people from all over the world.
When people view the Love Tapes it brings a huge variety of emotions and thoughts. People share their intimate feelings — some funny, some sad, some angry which give the viewer a gut sense of our collective humanity.
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