JILL MAGID

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jill Magid’s artistic methods and in-depth projects take notice of systems of power and control and all of their inherent absurdity and opacity. Her performance-based practice involves extensive research into structures of authority, like intelligence agencies and the police, often intimately putting herself in relationships with individuals within these structures. To gain access to these people and organizations, her approach leverages the subtleties of seduction and institutional loopholes. Solo exhibitions of Jill’s work have taken place at the MUAC in Mexico City; the Tate Modern in London; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. Her first feature-length film The Proposal, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Time Artist Commission, and the Calder Prize.

ABOUT THE ARTIST TALK

Tender: A Vocabulary

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021
For her Attention Series artist talk, Jill discusses many of her provocative artworks from becoming intimately intertwined with the legacy of renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán and culminating in her project titled Tender, which explores the complex relationship between currency and human value that began as an intervention into the US economy at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project focuses on a small and easily dismissed financial symbol, the penny, in order to thoughtfully consider the price of touch, the cost of interconnectedness, and the value of care. Through Tender, and in the context of her other works, this talk investigates how a poetic gesture can expand and take on new, intriguing forms that pay attention to the human aspects, and perhaps vulnerabilities, of human-built systems.

Recommendation List

VASD Program guests provide a recommendation list that gives insight into their work, practice, and research. Artist Jill Magid’s recommendations are:

  • Profanations by Giorgio Agamben

  • Seduction by Jean Baudrillard

  • Given Time: Counterfeit Money by Jacques Derrida

  • The Federal Register, Daily publication of the US Government Printing Office

  • Robert Bresson’s films: L’Argent and Pickpocket

  • Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy by Richard Seaford  

  • The music of T.Griffin

  • Under her Skin, a film by Michel Faber

Jill Magid. Tender. Courtesy of the artist.

Private events for the rmcad community

Next-Day Q+A

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
RMCAD students, faculty, and staff gathered for a casual conversation with visiting artist Jill Magid as part of her visit.

Jill Magid in conversation with students and faculty

Private Screening of Jill Magid’s The Proposal at Alamo Draft House

Wednesday, November 3, 2021
RMCAD students, faculty, and staff attended a special, private screening of Jill Magid’s award-winning film The Proposal at the Alamo Drafthouse, Sloans Lake.