Jillian Mayer
Jillian Mayer (1984, US) is an artist and filmmaker living in Miami, FL. Through videos, sculptures, online experiences, photography, performances, and installations, Mayer explores how technology affects our lives, bodies, and identities by processing how our physical world and bodies are impacted and reshaped by our participation in a digital landscape. Mayer investigates the points of tension between our online and physical worlds and makes work that attempts to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two. Mayer's artwork has a consistent thread of modeling how to subvert capital-driven modes of technological innovation.
Lately, Mayer has been researching and more interested in how survivalists prepare for a disaster, and how the objects they create betray universal anxieties and fantasies around an unstable future. Mayer has been visiting decommissioned military sites in the midwest and meeting fulltime fallout shelter/bunker inhabitants to take this notion of how class functions in an apocalypse as a conceptual jumping-off point, creating sculptures, paintings, and video that implicate the intersection of survival and privilege.
