Collaboration is foundational to McCorkle’s artistic practice. Collaborating with other artists, organizations, and foundations brings his distinctive style to a variety of different topics and themes.
eco-narratives amplified through dreams
In collaboration with Jakob Kudsk Stenseen, Boreal Dreams explores how different changes to our climate also impact changes within us, how we dream, think and sleep. Presented in two parts, a virtual world and online interactive artwork, Boreal Dreams traverses the boreal, from North America to Scandinavia, a realm of where environments are shifting and with this, so are intelligences and consciousness.
Commissioned by the Fondation Beyeler as part of the historical painting show Northern Lights curated by Helga Christoffersen and Ulf Küster, whilst Northern Lights celebrates the boreal’s historical past from national perspectives, Boreal Dreams conjures ecological futures to be considered - a hugely influential ecological region for stabilising our planet climate internationally.
You can explore a digital version of this installation at BorealDreams.live.
In collaboration with Cameron Kostopoulos, this haptic VR experience shares the true story of Carolyn Mercer, a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy aimed at 'correcting' her gender identity. Through wearable haptic vests, sleeves, and gloves, participants physically connect to the rhythm of Carolyn’s heartbeat, the cadence of her breath, and the tremors of the procedures she endured. Her journey confronts the inhumanity of these practices and highlights the extraordinary strength it takes to live authentically.
lived experiences amplified through XR
eco-narratives amplified through magical realms
“Nocturnal Fugue”, in collaboration with Jiabao Li, is an immersive world of bats. Their social vocalizations transform into evocative music set to imaginative digital recreations of their natural habitats. Each digital habitat crafts a different sense of scale and time, creating a mood centric to the social vocalizations that are being heard and felt. As their sounds are transmogrified into imaginative soundscapes you are transported into the unique sonic world of bats through spatial sound, immersive projections, and haptic vibrations.
