Studio Offbeats 16.0: Jack & Jillian

Opening: Sa.,14.06.2025, 19h
Finissage: So, 22.06.2025, 19h

“Jack Beeless and Jillian Beemore are an artist duo whose collaborative practice explores the shifting boundary between public and private life. Jack, a Dutch filmmaker stuck in creative limbo, and Jillian, a former American actress known for her dramatic moods, use their real-life partnership both as material and a mirror.

Their ongoing project Jack & Jillian: Public & Private unfolds in a sequence of acts: “Pissing Art”, “Sleeping”, and “Bathing”—staging intimate gestures in highly visible cultural spaces across Europe and beyond. In these euphoric moments, they capture a visceral trifecta of cathartic reflexivity:
Being, Redemption and Purification.

Through performance, photography, and the unsettling reframing of the body and its movements, they explore themes of surveillance, control in relation to the aesthetics of exposure.

With subtle irony and unapologetic presence, Jack & Jillian ask: what remains private when everything is performance?

Blood & Tears

The afterbirth of copulating ideas entangled in the unholy union of performance and power

Two suits. No faces. Just silk-wrapped throats and the arrogant poise of silence. The red tie is loud and bright, like fresh blood on white linen; the blue tie is glacial, as sharp as a crumbling shard of remorse, before the executioner swings his axe. These figures don’t need faces, they’ve outsourced their humanity long ago.

They aren’t people. They’re placeholders. Fleshless avatars of consequence dressed in institutional drag. They haunt the stage of consequence dressed in institutional drag. They haunt the stage of history like bureaucratic phantoms, gliding past the wreckage they coerce and micromanage, without grace, like wooden gods.

In Blood & Tears, power is an apparatchik, a mannequin, designed to execute and stand strong. A tailored, sterile untouchable template. Behind it, real bodies bleed. Real hands shake. Real voices bleed-out into the void like exhausted stars. Yet, these suits remain creaseless, ever present, and pristine. Never sweating, never weeping, muted and unaffected by time.

Trapped in time, Jack & Jillian were lovers once. Yes, lovers in the most deliciously dangerous sense: purveyors of ideas. Now they are manipulating and curating a collapsed world. Spiralling through political clashes and unhinged media images. They are transformed into virtual puppets, haunting the margins of space — rotating from the shadows, to the spotlight — watching their defeat unfold like a rerun no one asked for but no one dares to turn off.

You’ve entered the theatre now. So tell me:

Are you watching, or being watched?
Are you the narrative, or just another prop?
Is that your voice screaming—or is it just the echo of someone else’s grief?
The lights never dim. The curtain never falls.
The show doesn’t end—
It mutates.

Welcome to Blood & Tears.
You may already be part of the cast.”

https://jillianbeemore.com/about
https://jack,jillian.com/

curated by Alexander Felch