VITRINE
EXHIBITION SERIES
OCT 03, 2024
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NOV 03, 2024
Jason Isolini
Incidental Container
Featuring Jake Brush, Courtlin Byrd, Tomi Faison, Sarah Friend, Xavier McFarlin, Rebecca Millsop, Zach Nader, Georgica Pettus, and Molly Soda
Incidental Container features a multimedia proposition conceived of and organized by Jason Isolini. The project is simultaneously a singular artwork and group show exploring works of art as physical and digital storage. Incidental Container subverts systems of commerce to explore what is material and immaterial, visible and hidden among the artifacts of our digital and physical lives.
“My work uses techniques of 360° collage and network interventions to test the increased conflation of corporate, public and private environments.”
— Jason Isolini
Jason Isolini is a multidisciplinary artist, working across virtual and physical media. Jason is a 2023 NYFA Fellow in Digital and Electronic Media. His work has previously been exhibited at Picture Theory, PWA, Anonymous Gallery, Mery Gates, and Annka Kultys Gallery U.K. among others. Jason’s work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Wide Walls, Vice, Pin-Up, and Art Space. His writing has appeared in Outland, Zora Zine, and Moving Image Artist Journal U.K.
Artist’s Statement About the Work
Act so there is no use in a centre. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to ones preparing. They do not eat who mention silver and sweet. There was an occupation. A whole centre and a border make hanging an act of dressing. This which is not why there is a voice is the remains of an offering. There was no rental. — Gertrude Stein
The works were originally installed in a CubeSmart self-storage unit for the duration of a “First Month Free'' promotional contract. There was no public access to the original exhibition. Participating artists were asked to transfer works into the storage-unit from their own physical or digital storage. All equipment used to power and display artists’ works utilized 15-Day return policies. The works exhibited at PWA were scanned and filmed documentation of the original installation, which is streaming on gallery monitors from a “Free 30-Day” Dropbox account. In addition to the documentation exhibited at PWA, an interactive browser-based video is on display archiving the original installation. Also presented in the gallery are images and video of the container's interior seen with a volume of hanging translucent fabric. A quarter through the free month contract, the installation was scanned and captured with 360º video. It was then developed into a browser-based interactive tour. The HTML code responsible for the virtual tour's structure and content was then sublimated into translucent fabric. After the artists' works were de-installed the coded fabrics were installed in the container. The fabrics remained hanging in the unit until it was vacated prior to payment. The fabrics have now been sewn into purchasable tote-bags.