Imaginary Inventions Inspired by Pippa Garner
Sun, June 9, 2024
11 am–4 pm
Detail view of a drawing from the installation at Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20–August 11, 2024). Pippa Garner, Inventor’s Office, 2021–24. Photograph by Filip Wolak.
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Floor 3, Theater
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Put on your inventor’s hat and join Whitney Educators to get creative and come up with your own impossible inventions inspired by 2024 Biennial artist Pippa Garner.
Garner’s Inventor’s Office is filled with what she describes as “impossible inventions.” Explore the installation and discover these playful, imaginative objects that possess their own lives and stories, long after they've become obsolete. Some of these works also reflect on Garner’s journey of transition or “genderhacking,” which she began in the late 1980s. She wondered if the energy she put into modifying appliances could also be applied to the human body, thinking, “If I can work with a waffle iron, why not the body?”
