Jill Magid
Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and observation. Magid works in a variety of media including literature, video, sculpture, photography, and performance. She received a MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2002. Upcoming solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, London and Yvon Lambert, NY. Solo exhibitions include The Thicker the Glass at Yvon Lambert (Paris), Article 12 at Stroom (NL), With Full Consent at Gagosian Gallery (NYC), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin), Centre d’Art Santa Monica (Barcelona), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies At Bard (NY), Artist Space (NYC), Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC), De Appel (Amsterdam), The Rose Art Museum (Boston), MOCA Taipei, and at the Liverpool Biennial International ’04. She has written two novellas: Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy (2007), and One Cycle of Memory in the city of L (2004), and is currently working on her third. She teaches at The Cooper Union. www.jillmagid.net
Articles by Jill Magid
Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy (excerpt)
Excerpt from Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy
Will you search me?
What?
I want you to search me.
What?
We were rushing across the platform towards the express, and got on just as the door was closing. It was nearly empty but he remained standing, holding the overhead bar.
Why do you want me to search you?
Because you said you would.
I can’t [...]