Whitney Johnson: Lines of Flight

On the Chicago experimental scene and the cult of Hermaphroditus

“In my work, I’m trying to foster and nurture aesthetics based on affect and embodied perception, rather than systems of codification. I’m trying to open up definitions and turn those into questions, lines of flight.”

Whitney Johnson, photo: Marzena Abrahamik

For the past 15 years, Whitney Johnson has been a prolific collaborator in Chicago’s experimental…