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ISO has entered into the online collection of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s library, the inaugural collection of the Lasalu Art Library, and has been exhibited as part of the British Columbia Quarantine Qapsule project. Limited copies of the book are available at Canton-sardine gallery in Vancouver.








ISO: the exhibition was staged from the 25th to 28th of June 2021 in an empty apartment unit above the Carrall Supermarket in Vancouver. The site-specific installation featured photographs and written excerpts hanging from the walls and curtains, revealing the project ISO. Scraps of white linen were scattered across the floor and stairway, and my personal objects, including books, a film canister containing hair and an empty medicine bottle sat atop the mantelpiece. The visual centrepiece was a bed, constructed from two hundred and seventeen concrete bricks weighing approximately a thousand pounds; each brick was carried up the stairs the evening before by my mother, my brother, my friend, the unit owner and I. The installation also featured three commissioned sound installations by Arlo Spring, emerging from speakers draped in white cloth found throughout the space. Photographed by Donnel Garcia, Aidan & Tina Chin, and Kartik K





Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia (use onscreen arrows to navigate slideshow) Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia Photographed by Donnel Garcia

Photographed by Donnel Garcia
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Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin Photographed by Tina Chin

Photographed by Tina Chin
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Captured by Aidan Chin









Installation view


“Ruby” / “Esther” / “David”
three original compositions by Arlo Spring

Arlo Spring - composition, electric piano / Feven Kidane - flugelhorn / Adam Kyle - clarinet / Colin Zacharias - acoustic bass / Adrian Avendaño - percussion / Max Earchuck - recording / Cheyenne Graham - mix











Installation view







Photographed by Gomiib Photographed by Gomiib

Photographed by Kartik K.







Video documentation

















Full project credits; unending gratitude

ISO by Long Xi Vlessing
Photographed remotely in a series of FaceTime and video calls
from May 2020 to March 2021
in isolation

Conceived, photographed and edited by
Long Xi Vlessing

Photographs of / written contributions by
Aidan
Anita Hwahmee
Ashley
Basquiat
Breanna
Cindy
David
Dylana
Esther Hwahyoo
Gino
Janice
Joram
Ketsia
Kokeb & Leandro
Lorenzo
Mahi
María
Matt
Milan
Moroti
Owen
Ragu
Ricky
Ruby
Samantha


Ashley and Lorenzo directed by
Milan Orosco

Emblem design by
Matt Snyder


Exhibition credits


Conceived and curated by / works by

Long Xi Vlessing


Installation

Aidan Chin
Arlo Spring
Long Xi Vlessing


Sound

Arlo Spring


Bricks

Joel Foster


Documentation

Aidan Chin
Tina Chin
Donnel Garcia

Kartik K.


Volunteers

Max Chen
Ricky Chen
Bi Yun Chen
Aidan Chin
Breanna Julian-Cambridge
Olumoroti Emiola Ayomikun Soji-George
Arlo Spring
Shikai Vlessing






 

ISO: The Book

by Long Xi Vlessing




“I call you in earnest,
and you pick up every time”

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For nearly a year from the summer of 2020 to early 2021, I undertook the process of remotely photographing individuals over FaceTime and video chat in isolation. ISO is an exploration of this isolation, as well as searching, gratitude, bitterness, domestic space and youth; it’s an endeavour in defining a nexus of emotion, and a snapshot of things laid bare by time. It’s a photo book, a collective document, and a journal. The book features photographs of and written contributions from twenty-seven individuals— some longtime friends, some who I spoke to for the very first time.

140 page perfect-bound book
7'' x 10''
emblem set in golden foil
Final limited copies.

self published, 2021
Printed in Coquitlam, BC

ISO has entered into the online repository of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s library, the inaugural collection of the Lasalu Art Library, and has been exhibited as part of the British Columbia Quarantine Qapsule project. Limited copies are available at Canton-sardine gallery in Vancouver.