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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i>Evidence
Locker<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Solo
Exhibition<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Aksioma
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18, Ljubljana</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">19
June – 5 July 2013</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Exhibition
opening: Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 8 pm<br>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">After
receiving a Master’s degree in Visual Studies at MIT
Boston in 2000, with a thesis entitled <i>Monitoring
Desire</i>, Magid started working on a complex body
of work exploring the relationships between
surveillance and voyeurism, control and desire. Her
work often involves dispositifs of surveillance and
entities that conduct surveillance, such as police and
secret services. The subject of surveillance is often
her own body, which Magid exposes to the impersonal
eye of the surveillance camera in the attempt to reach
the eye of the beholder. In her early works, she wears
clothing and shoes lined or fitted with mirror panels,
and she designs mirror tools to capture things
otherwise impossible to hold. In the performance <i>Lobby
7</i> (1999), performed in the main lobby of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Magid hijacks
the lobby’s informational monitor, interrupting its
daily broadcast with a transmission that features
real-time exploration of her body via a lipstick
surveillance camera, which she holds in her hand. The
natural evolution of this research is the <i>Surveillance
Shoe</i> (2000), a pair of high-heeled shoes
equipped with an infrared surveillance camera, which
records what is usually hidden to the eye.<br>
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In <i>Evidence Locker</i> Jill Magid engaged
Citywatch, Liverpool’s closed-circuit video
surveillance system. Her strategy for gaining access
made use of an exception to the law that all footage
be erased after 31 days: if a person sends in a
request form describing who they are, where they were,
and what they were doing (along with a photo and ten
pounds), the police must store the footage in the
evidence locker for seven years. Magid made such a
request for 31 days straight, in the manner of love
letters and diary entries.<br>
She ultimately developed a rapport with the agents of
Citywatch and they began following her, assisted by
her recognisable patterns of movement and the red coat
she wore for that purpose. As Magid and Citywatch
became more aware of each other, issues of trust and
pitfalls in the logic of the system also came out.<br>
<i>Evidence Locker</i> consists of video installations
of Citywatch’s footage as well as written
correspondence and a website, which allows access to
the work, however, it also contains certain elements
(such as emails sent to the website viewer unlocking
further parts of the site) which control the viewer’s
experience in such a way as to correspond to Magid's
narrative.<br>
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As the artist wrote in 2007, “I seek intimate
relationships with impersonal structures. The systems
I choose to work with, such as police, secret
services, CCTV and forensic identification, function
at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective,
equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. I seek
the potential softness and intimacy of their
technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of
view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often
cease to remember), their engrained position in
society (the cause of their invisibility), their
authority, their apparent intangibility and, with all
this, their potential reversibility.”<br>
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<i>Evidence Locker</i> is part of the permanent
collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art.<br>
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<b>Jill Magid</b> graduated from Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
She then studied at MIT and received a Master of
Science degree in Visual Studies. She was artist in
residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
in Amsterdam from 2001 to 2002 and at the Eyebeam Art
and Technology Center in New York from 2006 to 2007.
Magid's work has been shown at the Yvon Lambert
Galleries in New York and Paris, the Gagosian Gallery
in New York, Whitney Museum in New York, and the Tate
Modern in London. Her performances and installations
have been shown worldwide in numerous group shows and
fairs.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Production
of the exhibition:</b> Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2013<br>
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Artistic Director: Janez Janša<br>
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič, Sonja Grdina<br>
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič<br>
Technician: Valter Udovičić<br>
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<b>Partners:</b> The Influencers (Barcelona), Link -
Center for the Arts of the Information Age (Brescia)<br>
<b>Thanks:</b> Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Institute
Zank<br>
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<i><b>The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported
by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.</b><br>
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</i><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Contact:</b></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Marcela
Okretič / <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a><br>
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25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></div>
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