Jodie Whalen: We already know how to build a time machine – proposition

Jodie Whalen’s multidisciplinary practice blends experimental performance and installation through video, drawing from personal history and popular culture to create immersive, symbolically rich environments.

We already know how to build a time machine – proposition offers viewers a site to contemplate belief and transformation. Driven by a desire to give physical form to the intangibility of fraught emotional states such as grief, anger, fear, love and hopefulness, the artist uses repetition, replication and degradation of imagery, sounds and motifs to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms. This ongoing project includes the new components Mutable XLI/I and Mutable XLI/II, which are site specific to the Mid North Coast, a landscape of great importance to the artist’s personal history and her current video and sound installations.

Image: Jodie Whalen, We already know how to build a time machine, 2023, video still, HD video, with sound, 16:9, 4:58 min. Image courtesy of the artist.