The Infinite Expansion of the Rubber Band Mansion is an exhibition of new work by multi-media artist Jamie Isenstein (American, b. 1975), wherein she proposes a “disco-centric” model of the universe. Throughout her work, Isenstein plays with the push and pull between belief and fact, magic and science, artifice and nature, & life and death to ask questions about perception, the nature of reality, and how most humans understand their own existence and the things around them.

Despite previous theories to the contrary, this model refuses the idea that humans (especially the wealthiest Americans) are a minuscule speck in an unfathomably vast unknown and are in fact, the center of the universe and the source from which all space, time and existence emanates. In this conception of the universe, each human is their own planet: spinning on their own, creating their own constellations. Like in Einstein’s universe, in Isenstein’s universe, time is still relative, but it is not neutral; rather it is controlled by humans.

This exhibition proudly debuts two new video installations for Isenstein: a 12-channel video titled Candle Clock and a 2-channel video titled Unlimited Ping Pong (Yawn), commissioned by the ICA at UTC in 2022 and created with UTC students and area Chattanoogans.