June 23 – June 27, 2021
2021년 6월 23일 – 6월 27일
Media Gallery – A, CICA Museum
My Mother’s Titanium Hip is a snapshot of 2020 quarantine living when everything – from exercise to grieving – happened online, in physical isolation from other human beings. Artist Jill Miller creates a frenetic entanglement of video conferencing fragments, 3D models, a chat with a psychic medium, and computer generated imagery to explore the fracturing of time and space during the pandemic. She collages the online landscape of our new digital normal — fractured connectedness, anxieties about loss and grief, a dithering between life on- and off-line, and virtually conversing with strangers and friends.
Miller examines her mother’s unexpected death during the pandemic through the lens of “everyday” quarantine experiences, where everything happened through digitally mediated experiences. Temporalities shift between the virtual and the real, the past and the present, the dreamy and the distressing. The landscape is unstable and fantastical: error messages interrupt video transmissions, her mother’s titanium hip hovers in the
background, and the coronavirus makes an appearance during a conference call.
This video landscape collapses physical, mental, and virtual spaces, and it mirrors the sense of longing and loss felt across the globe: the loss of freedom, togetherness, and time with loved ones.
Jill Miller is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Art Practice and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She is a visual artist who works across a wide range of media, from new media art to public practices (and many hybrids in between). She often collaborates with individuals and local communities in the form of public interventions, workshops, and participatory community projects. In past work, she: lived in the remote wilderness in search of Bigfoot, used performance art to assist mothers who were harassed for breastfeeding in public, and organized teenage girls who were closing the gender gap by learning to edit Wikipedia.
Miller is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Art Practice and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She founded and directs Platform Artspace, a public art venue on the UC Berkeley campus. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and collected in public institutions worldwide including CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Jill Miller, “My Mothers Titanium Hip” (2020)