JEF is presented by Daata x TSS.

JEF is a cosmology inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, luxury space communism fantasies and human/computer interaction. The project takes on many forms from animation and simulation to video games and stand-alone video objects. JEF started with an animation short, HOTR Home Furnishing, about a colonial alien on Earth who visits an Ikea-like warehouse that has been converted into a labor camp where Earth’s former elite are forced to put together furniture for regular people. 

Subsequent iterations have included a 40 minute animated look into the lives of the aliens and humans for Infinite Objects,  an Instagram project with the Bass Museum showing a self-portrait of one alien as he goes about his mundane life on Earth and a simulation of one of the planets that gives us a glimpse into the inner thoughts of some of a city’s inhabitants.

The project culminates in an expansive video game, released on the Steam gaming platform, where we control the body of the alien, who wakes up with its memory erased and quickly learns its home planet has been taken over by a spa cult. The player must help the alien escape and go on intergalactic adventures to learn its identity and what its JEF stands for.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by daata editions) (New York, NY), Denny-Dimin Gallery, (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Youngworld (Detroit, MI), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY). Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer.Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection. He is currently represented by Denny-Dimin gallery in New York.

Readings from contributors to our publiciation vii: wings folded to the sky.

Readings by: Sky Murray + 80881 + Precious Okoyomon + Andra/Philth Haus + Patrick Dunham + Chloe Morris + Hayden Dunham

L I V I N G C O N T E N T L I V E
H O S T E D B Y T I M E S S Q U A R E S P A C E 

Saturday, October 27, 2018
10AM—5PM
Times Square Space
1500 Broadway, New York

Organized by Living Content in partnership with Times Square Space, Living Content Live is a full day event consisting of talks, presentations, screenings, and performances, by some of the most thought-provoking contemporary artists, writers, and curators. Dealing with topics such as ecology, feminism, technology, and knowledge production, the featured speakers will present unique insights into their practices and their discourses. 
Participants include Hayley Silverman, Shaun Motsi, Rina Banerjee, Courtney J. Martin, Michael Wang, Timur Si-Qin, Jasper Spicero, Luciana Solano, Ryan Kuo. With screenings by Ilana Harris-Babou, Darren Bader, and Liz Magic Laser. 

Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that RSVP is essential due to limited capacity. 

Living Content Live is curated and organized by Adriana Blidaru, with curatorial and organizational support from Brian Paul. The event is created in collaboration with Tiffany Zabludowicz and Times Square Space. 

For press information contact
Brian Paul— info@livingcontent.online 

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Living Content’s is a bi-monthly interview platform created and edited by Adriana Blidaru, designed to provide firsthand information about artistic practices. Living Content investigates and highlights some of the most interesting and thought-provoking practices that best define a set of contemporary concerns. 
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Summer Exhibition Closing Event

A FINAL CHANCE TO VIEW SUMMER EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT TIMES SQUARE SPACE 

JASPER SPICERO, THE GLADY DAY

COLUMBIA MFA SUMMER EXHIBITION: FEEL THE OTHER DAY RUNNING UNDERNEATH THIS ONE

AUGUST 9TH
7PM - 10PM
TIMES SQUARE SPACE

Times Square Space Presents

A PERFORMANCE
BY SIGNE PIERCE

MAY 24TH
7PM

RSVP REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
limited capacity
info@timessquare.art

1500 Broadway
Entrance on 43rd Street
Times Square,  NY 10036

There will be a limited number of tickets available at the door for first come first serve. 

A PERFORMANCE BY HAYDEN DUNHAM

Please join us on February 7th, 2018, for a performance by Hayden Dunham at Times Square Space to celebrate the closing of STRAY, an exhibition including artists who are re-contextualizing the human body and the ways it is affected in the contemporary technological era; Kelly Akashi, Ivana Bašić, Hayden Dunham, Marguerite Humeau, and Pamela Rosenkranz. 

The exhibition will be open for a final viewing until 7 pm on the 14th floor and then will close for the performance. 

The evening is curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz and Valentina Van de Weghe and supported by Tamares, Williams & Hill, and Zabludowicz Collection.