The Time Machine is a playful, surreal and surprising meditation on time and the way it shapes our lives, a gentle questioning of the status quo and an invitation to see time differently.

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Currently in development and adapted from award-winning solo theatre show, An Attempt to Lose Time, The Time Machine is an interactive durational performance piece and installation for intergenerational audiences.

 

The original theatre show explores the idea of 'giving up' time in defiance of the rigid system of timekeeping that rules most people’s lives in western society, and its roots in capitalism, industrialisation and colonialism. The Machine - a series of sculptural structures that I construct during the show - is the central visual element. 

 

In this adapted piece, The Machine becomes a physical representation of our changing relationships with time: a deconstructing and rebuilding of our own perceptions of time, time as a human construct in contrast to cyclical, non-human notions of time, and the inevitability of an ultimate return to chaos despite our attempts to exert temporal control. 

 

The Time Machine will be presented on 11th July 2026 at Haphazard, a one-day festival of 'all ages' live art in Manchester presented by hÅb and Z-Arts.

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The Machine was originally designed and built in collaboration with Tom Mills, with funding from Arts Council England.