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In 2023, it will be 15 years since Vesterbro's legendary video store Yvonnes Video closed after 27 years on the corner of Saxogade and Istedgade. Today, we live in a different digital reality where physical video rental no longer exists. At the entrance to Enghave Parken in Copenhagen, the window facades of a glass pavilion is used to create the feeling that even though you are standing outside, you are inside a video store. From the outside, your gaze is met by stacks of VHS videotapes and screens running a series of subtitled video interviews with designers, artists and scientists who, in different ways, reflect on and fight for a more sustainable and just digital world. Like a regular video store, we will also be open at certain times and from the street, you can enter and participate in a series of events that reflect on the sustainability of our digital lives and speculate on possible alternatives. _Counter Cloud Sewing Circle, 30 April 12-18: Counter-cloud banner-making workshop and talks. With data.coop, Jacob Remin among others. _International Workers’ Counter-Cloud Day, 1 May 13-16: join us in protesting the exploitative regime of Big Tech (at Fælledparken, meet-up point tba). _Publication launch, 12 May, 18.00: “Counter Cloud Mixtape”. The publication gathers research undertaken through the Video Store into counter-cloud initiatives from around the globe. NB.Bring your video-tapes! Drop by on any of the above announced dates and donate one or more old VHS tapes to the video-store! You can simply leave it to be included into a growing archive or let us know if you want to tell about your tape’s contents and screen a clip from it (this will be possible during the opening program 29 & 30 April).
+_29 April 15-21: Opening event “Bring Your Own Tapes” action, pre-recorded audio interview with Yvonne of “Yvonne’s Video” & VHS screening of documentary “Kim’s Video” (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon, 2023).
+ _Sun 30 April 12-17: Counter Cloud Sewing Circle w. banner-making workshop and talks.
+ _Mon 1 May 13-16: International Workers’ Counter-Cloud Day
+ _May 12 18.00-20 Publication Launch “Counter Cloud Mixtape” & BYOB. NB.Bring your video-tapes! Drop by on any of the above announced dates and donate one or more old VHS tapes to the video-store! You can simply leave it to be included into a growing archive or let us know if you want to tell about your tape’s contents and screen a clip from it (this will be possible during the opening program 29, 30 April and on May 12).
-Event Program at Arnestedet
+Event Program at Arnestedet
-_Opening event, 29 April 15-21: “Bring Your Own Tapes” action, pre-recorded audio interview with Yvonne of “Yvonne’s Video” & VHS screening of documentary “Kim’s Video” (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon, 2023).
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(15-18: Bring your own tapes, 18-19: opening presentations, 19-20.30 Kim's Video.)
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15-18: BYOT: Bring Your Own Tapes
+We open the store by kicking off our 2 -week long Bring Your Own Tapes action. Simply dig out that old VHS tape(s) you have lying around and donate them to our growing collection. We especially welcome recordings taped off the air or movies you have a special relationship to, and encourage everyone to share a few thoughts in speech or writing about what they have donated. All who donate will in return receive a copy of the store’s first Mix Tape publication.
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18-19.30: Opening presentations
+18.00: Welcome & introduction to A Video Store After the End of the World
+18.15-19 Vesterbro Video Memories w. former video store owner Yvonne W. Larsen of Yvonne’s Video and former video store customer Annette Finnsdottir.
+19.00 “Blockbuster Video”: performance lecture and introduction to Kim’s Video by Kris da Trash
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19.30-21.00 "Kim's Video" (Dir: Ashley Sabin & David Redmon, 2023)
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12.00 Open house with ongoing banner making. Come by and make your own counter-cloud slogan and banner. We will have some materials but bring your own if you can (cloth, cardboard, paint).
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13.00 VHS RIP (Research In Progress) presentation by A Video Store After the End of the World featuring interview materials on non-extractivist and transfeminist techno-social practices.
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14.00 Halfdan Mouritzen on data.coop, a cooperatively run and owned server and software infrastructure.
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15.00 Jacob Remin on the Video Store’s collaborative local Wi-Fi hotspot.
+… continuation of banner making and social hangout.
Bring your strike banner and/or join us in protesting the exploitative regime of Big Tech (at Fælledparken, meet-up point tba).
+The publication gathers research undertaken through the Video Store into counter-cloud initiatives. A Video Store After the End of the World hosts a collection of about 2000 VHS home-recorded tapes and an ongoing research which generates new audiovisual content in the form of interviews, texts and other materials. This new material gradually alters the existing content of the tapes, reformatting them into “Mix Tapes”: publications on different themes relating to non-extractivist practices.
All events at Enghaveparken, Enghavevej 50b, 1674, Copenhagen, Denmark. Supported by Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.
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Contact: videostore@posteo.net
Contact: videobutik@posteo.net
Past Activities
_ 8th of March 2023: Counter Cloud Action Day