Jill H. Casid, “Untitled (Throw Out)”, 2017 – 2022

Untitled (Throw Out) takes the form of an intimately-scaled video projection with a densely layered palimpsest of image and sound, weaving the Polaroids with archival shards of an incomplete correspondence, my voice spelling out the words to speculate with the other side of spell, and my increasingly smudged, tracing hand realized by Jack Kellogg. The projection is thrown out from the exposed apparatus of a small portable projector perched atop a gallery pedestal (both in the deep black of the gallery walls). And thrown onto the exposed paper surface of a rectangular mailer in the standardized 6 x 9 dimensions of the frayed envelope that launched the film’s research. The envelope’s handwritten instruction to “throw out” and “throw away” serves as the film’s central, animating vehicle. The throw length of projection and visual and audio amplification of its instruction to throw out away confront to contest the conditions of being thrown by an activated melancholy that holds fast to and keeps company with the cast out in refusing to move on into the new post-pandemic normal until there is justice and material reparation.

Jill H. Casid, “Untitled (Throw Out)”, 2017 – 2022, Video (16:30), paper envelope, projector. Conceived, written, and performed by Jill Casid and realized by Jack Kellogg

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