Artist Profile

SLOW MOVEMENTS

Time is central to the art of Lyndal Jones. Working with durational practice, her installations include video, performance, theatre, dance, photography, and sound. Encounters with her projects unfold; her audiences navigate immersive experiences that capture layered processes of making and accumulation of meaning derived from extended exchanges with subjects and subject.

Jones identifies the nascent roots of this way of working in her experiences with feminism in the 1970s. “I was introduced to Laura Mulvey’s ideas at the London Filmmaker’s Co-Op. When Laura later wrote about [the male gaze] I thought ‘This condemns me to silence forever! There has to be another way.’ … I experimented with duration

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