c h a p l a c h a p r e c o r d s

chaplachap records publishes video albums, which have a relation to visual albums →  but rather than containing a collection of music videos, are offered as a form of video & sound art. While referencing vinyl concept albums, they also recall a time when video artists conceptualised a future of dematerialised art, distributed outside of commodification systems. The technology to enable this eventually arrived, but along with it came both a shift in patterns of consumption and a convergence of media, such that ‘video art’ may no longer exist except as an art-historical phenomenon; yet here we are …