It's Not About the Cars

It’s Not About The Cars was an interactive art experience that merged installation, theatre, and digital art to create a site-specific work across four cars in a parking lot in Liverpool.

The work took audiences on a journey through collective memories, rituals, and experiences connected to cars. This included a guided modern-day meditation played over radios, as well as confessional spaces in backseats where people could share things they do, or would like to do, alone in a car. Immersive performances explored stories about being in cars in western Sydney, being a young queer woman cruising through Jordan, and reliving a childhood spent in a 90s Valiant with siblings.

This installation created a unique, intimate space within cars, allowing audiences to share their own stories and connect with the performers and space in a personal way.

Projected onto the windscreen was ‘going nowhere, together’, a video piece that played in intervals when the cars were unused. It was created as an ode to the kids in the backseat who were unaware of road rules, or the destination, but instead were lost in their own world. With Sinn Sisamouth playing on the car stereo, the driver window cracked open a bit, and the autumn wind dancing around, watch as the trees pass through the rear view window as we go nowhere, together.

going nowhere, together (2019)