Andrew Browne 28 Jan - 25 Feb 2023

Travis John Ficarra

Containment Field

As a term ‘containment field’ implies a tension between incarceration & control and an expansive planar site of play. The field - art historic shorthand for a specific approach to image and ground - more generally suggests a place where boundaries are demarcated only at some distance.

In particular gaming / Sci-Fi contexts the containment field is also a zone for neutralizing threat through capture, but to extend any slippery metaphor, we might also understand it as a place where episodic image and aspect, extracted from the real or else cunningly contrived to appear as such, is held in stasis via archaic or contemporary technologies.