‘Yubaba’ by Hextape\Bridget Chappell. Video by Patrick Hase; Hextape logo by Jonnine Nokes. 2019.

In HTTP:PARADISE exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, 2020:

The animated music video for Yubaba (2019) by visual artist Patrick Hase and sound artist Bridget Chappell, also known as HEXTAPE, delves into forms of digital memory. This collaborative music video explores how digital memory implants itself—whether invited or otherwise—as a mnemonic device within ourselves. Hase and Chappell are interested in making sense of how personal narratives are at once malleable despite the form of memory itself becoming ever more solidified. As the artists say, “Memory is alive: we cannot recall anything in its totality, and sometimes have little control over what memories will re-call us.” The video gathers together, reconfigures and visually congeals images of raves, lovers and AirMax sneakers, presented altogether like the “cross-pollination of personal and collective memories facilitated by the internet.” Similarly, the musical composition of Yubaba was made with the intent to process uncomfortable memories in real time, where events are recalled and assigned to musical sequences, allowing the producer to revisit them in safety.