★·.· 💚 “I want to leave this Earth behind” DELUXE VHS ★·.·  ⭐️

Edition of 25. This deluxe VHS is hand detailed and packaged with holo-star windows, lenticular artwork, printed ephemera, stickers and inner fold text by Taliesin Herb.  40 minute duration.

“This minute network is composed of poetic fragments, compiled as associative nodes. It serves as both a summary of my own experiences and potential destinations within the felt work.” - Taliesin Herb

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“I want to leave this Earth behind” is a collaboration between artists Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen centered on outer space exploration, speculative-fictive realities, and Crip futurity. The project is an immersive exercise in imagining interplanetary and sci-fantastical atmospheres– conditions which are inherently unlivable, unbreathable, converting all human body-minds into disabled-bodied-ness.

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VHS Produced by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen. 

VHS Duplication by duplication.com  with 4:3 aspect ratio and NTSC video format for pre-2000 era televisions.

Print support from Net Plaza.

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Sound :

I want to leave this Earth behind 

Written, recorded and produced by Stefana Fratila

Sononaut VSTs: Stefana Fratila (Designer) & Jen Kutler (Developer)

Sononaut Windows QA and Windows Installer: Tim Light

Sononaut Calculations: Dr. Conor A. Nixon (NASA)

2LP Mixing Engineer: Jeremy Greenspan

2LP Mastering Engineer: Sage Kim at Lacquer Channel Mastering

2LP Tape Operator: Greg Jones

Weather Loops Mixing Engineer: Lisa Conway

Immersive Audio Support: David Ledoux

Album artwork: Diana Lynn VanderMeulen

Design: Hayley Parker

Visual :

Adapted from A Boundless and Radiant Aura (XR Magic Window) & I want to leave this Earth behind, Full dome immersive video. 

Animated, designed and produced by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen

XR Development: Jonathan Carroll of Spekwork

Technical Artwork Assist: Lennard Spokowski

Technical Artwork Assist: Sarah Cannon

Made in Canada. 

Curios to see more? Video of the VHS here.