How to Construct a Time Machine at MK Gallery What is time? How do we order the past, the present, and the future? Why are artists interested in time? How is art a machine, vehicle, or device for exploring time? How is art a means by which time “travels,” and how does art permit us to travel in time? These and other questions provide the rationale for How to Construct a Time Machine, an exhibition presented at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, of over 25 historical and contemporary works that explore how artists transform our experience of time, curated by Dr Marquard Smith of the Royal College of Art, London. The exhibition’s title is taken from an 1899 text by the avant-garde French writer Alfred Jarry, written in direct response to H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel The Time Machine (1895). Wells invented and popularised a distinctively modern, fictional concept of time travel, with the time machine as a vehicle that could be operated “selectively.” Jarry’s response crafted a pseudo-scientific fiction that presents the time machine and time travel as an instance of “the science of imaginary solutions.” e-flux/announcements/how-to-construct-a-time-machine/
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