Excerpt from November 2010, Interviews Jill Conner on Core and Mantle, Whitehot Magazine
AN EXCERPT FROM NOVEMBER 2010, INTERVIEWS JILL CONNER ON CORE AND MANTLE
By Kofi Forson
Whitehot Magazine
FORSON: I find the most transcendental piece to be Pat Lay’s “Life Support.” (2008) It’s very much a visible thing, at once cinematic and yet evolving lyrically. What’s your impression of this particular piece?
CONNER: I favored the placement of a machine part over that of a human portrait. Pat Lay pieces together our strong attachment to technology. Her work is also a critique of the computer fetish through its distortion of an individual’s identity, giving more prominence to the frame of a computer hard drive. Put simply, we are very close to living pure artificial lives.
