Incidental Container, 2024
Incidental Container was a show focused on the contingencies of return poicies, promotional contracts, and digital subscription plans offering temporary space for free.
It is simultaneously a singular artwork and group show
The show can be thought of in a few ways:
1. A series of processes that dictates the conditions for exhibtion.
2. A format for art works to exsist, and organically form a context on their own.
3. As a document to be reformatted as both, a new exhibtion and an object.
Process Description:
Utilizing a “First Month Free” promotional contract, I invited nine artists to transfer thier works into a storage unit from thier own physical or digital storage.
The works were installed and powered by equiptment utilizing 15 day return policies.
There was no public access to the show, so I decided to create a 360º virtual tour to enable remote viewing of it. The tour was hosted online using html code.
The html code was then extracted from the virtual tour and sublimated in translucent fabric.
At the 15 day mark I deinstalled the show and had the equipment returned at no cost.
I then hung the sublimated fabrics in the contanier as a representation of the exhibtions digital exsistence for the remainder of the contract.
After the show was completed I had the fabrics sewn into purchasable tote bags, ultimatly, becoming new containers to exhibti peoples things.
As a second iteration, this exhition was presented at the gallery PWA. The storage container was printed at scale and all original media was presented as re-photographed and filmed documentation.
All filmed documentation at PWA streamed on gallery monitors from a “Free 30-Day” Dropbox account.
Featuring artists: Jake Brush, Courtlin Byrd, Tomi Faison, Sarah Friend, Xavier McFarlin, Rebecca Millsop, Zach Nader, Georgica Pettus, and Molly Soda.