Exhibition: 13th – 23rd September
Talk: 22nd September, 7pm – 10pm
Resort Project Space
A journey from Manhattan to Thanet via Sicily. Three islands connected via VHS tape.
In 2009 Franca Pauli and Dario Colombo acquired on behalf of the Sicilian town of Salemi a collection of 42,000+ videos that made up Kim’s Video and Music, an infamous video shop in the East Village of New York City. Described as the “go-to place for rare selections”, Kim’s Video and Music was a cult New York institution for two decades; a repository of remarkable films and a hangout for many of the key players in the East Village cultural scene of the 80s and 90s. Now Franca seeks to develop the project in Margate. Continue Reading