List Projects 30: Jeremy Couillard
"List Projects 30: Jeremy Couillard" is the first institutional solo exhibition of Jeremy Couillard.
Couillard's exhibition centers around his newest game, Escape from Lavender Island (2023). It begins with the player dreaming about a dystopian city before waking up and finding themselves in the city they saw in their sleep. The city is controlled by a nefarious entity called the Lavender Corporation. Its landscape is dense with bizarre quests, enigmatic public sculptures, fragments of language, and dirty jokes. The player's progression through the neighborhoods of Lavender Island is enabled by a succession of masks, each associated with a power, like shooting pharmaceuticals at passersby, viewing alien billboards, and walking through walls.
This interview with Jeremy Couillard, was conducted in conjunction with "List Projects 30: Jeremy Couillard" installed at the List Visual Arts Center (July 18–October 6, 2024).