Vision02 » Venice Biennale http://vision02.com Lifestyle Magazine with a Vision Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:38:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Life Span – VHS Tapes Collection http://vision02.com/life-span-vhs-tapes-collection/ http://vision02.com/life-span-vhs-tapes-collection/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:22:30 +0000 admin http://vision02.com/?p=111 What looks like the world’s biggest videotape collection, is actually an artistic display presented at this year’s Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Entitled Life Span and displayed in a small church on Garibaldi Street, this giant block full of VHS videotapes is the work of Australian artists Claire Healey and Sean Cordeiro. In numbers 195,774 tapes and features a total recording time of 66 years.

Life Span is a physical representation of what a human being can see from its birth, to the day it dies.

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