Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time, this piece continues my exploration of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse and textual cut-up techniques. It takes an existing work of literature and rewrites it word by word: each selected word is followed by one that might appear after it in the original text.
In L’Engle’s book, the characters travel by wrinkling time through a kind of wormhole known as a tesseract. In this piece, the reader travels through the text by clicking words, jumping between the original story and newly cut-up versions.
Commissioned by Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery for Literary Notions, a series of installations by artists using literature as their inspiration.
Initiated by exhibitions officer Trudie Leigo, Literary Notions invited Australian contemporary artists to respond to selected classic and modern novels, while encouraging local audiences to read the books behind each installation. A Wrinkle in Time was presented in the gallery’s Vault space.
The series also paired Alison McDonald with John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids, Fintan Magee with Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way, and Hossein Valamanesh with Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling.