S/núye Built My Time Machine

Taryn Walker'S MFA Defence
Friday, November 22, 2024 | 9:30 AM
Room 4955 (Small Cinema)
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

S/núye Built My Time Machine is a body of work that investigates art-making as a strategy for both locating and creating sites of futurity through reimaginings of the everyday. With images and materials derived from urban landscape, this series of laser-etched woodblock prints, and time-based sculpture reflects on the parts of our world that reveal glimmers of infinite potential futures. These are glimmers that manifest in often mundane and unexpected ways, whether that be traffic cones in fantastical formations or crows tussling with a bag of chips. These moments are reinvented as otherworldly images and objects that blur the lines between reality and fiction, traditional and contemporary, material and technology. Here time is imagined outside of colonial structures and vibrates in a tangle of past, present, and future. S/núye Built My Time Machine poses the questions: “What is possible?” “What is present?” and most importantly, “Are you ready to step into the portal?”

Keywords: Printmaking; Time-based Sculpture; Installation; Field Recording; Decolonial Futures; Non-linear Time