VITRINE
EXHIBITION SERIES

OCT 03, 2024

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.

 

 
 
 
 

Incidental Container Tote, available on Metalabel

 

 
 

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.

Jason Isolini