Sociological, Parodic & Sublime, Jillian Mayer at Locust Projects

This coming Saturday, May 11th, 2013 from 7 to 10PM, Locust Projects will inaugurate the largest exhibition to date by Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer.

Entitled “Precipice/PostModem” (On view through June 19th) Mayer will showcase sculptural and installation work using critical and satirical narrative that tackles the concept of technological singularity.

Moving gracefully from cinema to installation in both, the physical and digital realm, Mayer adds interactive and random technological elements to originate a singular work.

Represented by David Castillo Gallery, the Cuban-American artist has been working in collaboration with another Cuban-American, Miami-based Lucas Leyva, the founder of the hippest and wonderfully eclectic Borscht Film Festival.

The Mayer/Leyva duo produced and directed the experimental short film #PostModem which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year in the Short Program Category and has been featured in an independent film retrospective at MoMA in New York as part of the Carte Blanche series.

Mayer is the front woman for #PostModem, a performance collaborative that makes meta-pop music based in art/web theory. The film extends to software applicationss, poetry, installations and other Internet experiences.


At Locust’s Precipice/PostModem, Mayer is building on the body of work that began with her previous #PostModem.

“Some of the ideas or scenes in the short film presenting ten mini-videos will be executed in installation form with performance,” said Jillian Mayer.

In A Place for Online Dreaming, an installation that includes performers sleeping in the gallery, lit by a projection of glitchy dream catchers, the work will be linked to an interactive website entitled Aplaceforonlinedreaming.com also known as TheSleepSite.net, a virtual environment that offers the same thing.

“The site is a place for web users to take a break and rest their heads against the screen of their computer on a digital representation of a comfortable pillow where users can select the relaxing music of their choice and tweet their dreams with a larger sleeping community on Twitter,” added Mayer.

Other singular video installations at Locust’s will be Swing Space, featuring several performers on swings above the gallery floor transfixed by a projected digital reality; and For U, a sculpture that exists in augmented reality and can only be fully seen through a custom smartphone app.

Mayer will also exhibit self-aware paintings, faux infomercials, and poorly articulated androids constructed of digital tablets and Roomba vacuum cleaners.