Jam Today

Jam Today 2022 HD Video 9’43”. ‘Living backwards makes one a little giddy at first’, remarks the White Queen to Alice. Ideas of linear time, and of a single, uniform, present were introduced to progress patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism. Alice Through the Looking Glass, like modern physics and ancient philosophy, questions the relationship between past, present and future. In Jam Today a diversity of voices from St Helens, Lancashire, in conversation, in poetry and in song, explore multiple nows and how these are formed by, and shape, individual and collective futures and pasts.