Published on
June 10, 2024
Category
Features
Stan Douglas’ cross-continental cultural collaboration is now on vinyl.
Originally commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada for the 2022 Venice Biennale and now exhibited as part of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition, ISDN is a two-channel video installation that explores music as a form of cross-continental cultural collaboration titled after a technology introduced in the 1980s, used to transmit high-quality digital audio over copper phone lines.
Featuring London-based grime artists Lady Sanity and TrueMendous trading verses with Cairo-based Mahraganat rappers Raptor and Joker, ISDN stages a fictionalised account of two musical collectives as they examine systemic social ills through their lyrics, directly raising questions about race and class in their home countries.
Douglas has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Salzburger Kunstverein, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and London’s Serpentine Gallery and he has had work featured in the Venice Biennale (1990, 2001, 2005, and 2019) and Documenta (1992, 1997, and 2002).
ISDN encompasses two 12″ edits, selected by Douglas. The outer sleeve features a still image from the ISDN film. This is a limited run of 1000 copies. Order ISDN now.
