Library Excavations #7: VHS R.I.P. Post-Covid serving as a narrative gateway

serving as a narrative gateway to the project’s universe

borders and language3

Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman – until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street

social and emotional value of clothing and offers a ‘way in’ to understanding garments from a multitude of overlapping and intersecting perspectives

Translated by Miriam Stoney

Library Excavations #7: VHS R.I.P. Post-Covid serving as a narrative gatewayLibrary Excavations #7 mourns and explores VHS tapes in the public library lending collection. In addition to text and photos from the collection and the discard piles, this booklet also contains reflections on the history of VHS at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center by librarian Bob Sloane, and thoughts on the state of VHS relative to videos by artists from Abina Manning, the Director of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of