Critical Colloquium

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“Suntrust” (2016) by Shani Crowe 

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The online version of the Jill Magid’s evidence locker where one can access the video clips after registering on her website. 

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Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 [Cultural History 1880–1983], 1980–83 (detail)

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‘1978-88′ by Lorna Simpson (1990) owned by MoMA

Gelatin silver print and plastic plaques 

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Total Picture Control (II) 27 Books 75.2 x 22.9 x 17.1 cm / 29 5/8 x 9 x 6 3/4 in

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Still from Lillian Schwartz’s Pixillation, 1970

Crystal structures composed via microphotography

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Permission is a material and changes the work’s consistency.

Jill Magid

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“Shekere” (2016) by Shani Crowe 

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Stan Brakhage, Mothlight, 1963

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Evidence Locker, Day 24, Saturday, February 21, 2004

We were connected, and it was invisible. I told you: I have an idea. I will close my eyes now, and you will walk me there like this. At first I kept going to my left, although I felt I was going straight. This happens to me in swimming pool lanes. My body has a tendency. To your right, Jill. To your right, Jill.

You told me who was around me, who I had to avoid, when to pause and when I was clear. You said, Everyone is looking. Everyone notices. You told me I looked good, that I looked peaceful, You look good Jill. You look peaceful, and asked me how I was. Sometimes people would bump me, or brush against me and I would flinch. You’d go: Oh sorry! Oh excuse me. Were you me or the person who bumped into me? At one point you said, there is no one around you; the streets are full, but oddly enough, you are clear for 20 meters. I said, Its only you and me, everyone else is gone. Why would this have felt so different if I had been holding the phone?

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Evidence Locker, Day 23, February 20, 2004

And then I stopped, near your feet, you are almost directly above me, in the middle of Lord Street. I closed my eyes and everything changed. The people around me kept going, I could hear them, but they were muffled. I felt only you. You held me with your eyes and I was safe. After a minute- was it more?- I opened them again. 

You said it was strange when I closed my eyes. We went back to the moment and you showed me the people who had been around me. Look, you said, He is telling his wife you are meditating. I was meditating. It was quiet then, when I could not see.  We were in sync.

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Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 [Cultural History 1880–1983], 1980–83 (detail)

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Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 [Cultural History 1880–1983], 1980–83 (detail)

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Evidence Locker prologue email

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"A text’s unity lies not in its origin but in its destination.”

—Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”

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“Knowledge and power are simply two sides of the same question: who decides what knowledge is, and who knows what needs to be decided?”

—Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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Jill Magid, Evidence Locker, 2004