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Friday 13 December | 10:00 – 11:00
Come along to our much-loved Seniors program!
December's session will be led by Kaitakatū | Curator Len Lye and Contemporary Art, Anna Briers. Anna will walk us through Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, the first major exhibition dedicated to the reciprocal relationship between these two artforms.
Supporting rich dialogue around contemporary art and culture rooted in our artistic program the lively discussions ask pertinent questions, share thought-provoking ideas and encourage community participation. No knowledge of art is needed!
Seniors takes place from 10 - 11am on the second Friday of each month, with many regulars gathering next door at Monica’s Eatery for a coffee at 9.30am.
Interlaced: Animation and Textiles:
Spanning the gallery and cinema spaces of the Len Lye Centre, Interlaced brings together moving-image works fashioned from textile materials and patterns alongside fibre works inspired by visual transformations made possible by animation.
Artists featured in the exhibition explore ways of embroidering with projected light, quilting celluloid films, and weaving digital tapestries. By braiding together contemporary animation and textile art, Interlaced highlights the influence of textile history and culture on artisanal media production.
The work of renown experimental filmmaker Len Lye (1901-1980) plays an important connective role in the exhibition. Interlaced makes a compelling case for the influence of Pacific tapa design and British textile production on Lye’s innovative animation techniques. Nesting Len Lye’s animated films in a broader field of analogue and digital media, Interlaced explores the enduring capacity of textile forms to make visible animating forces and to reanimate intergenerational cultural memory.
Image credit: Jennifer West, Orange Haze Film Quilt, (2023). 35 and 70mm filmstrips, inkjet print on clear film, ink, dyes, volcanic ash hand-made dye, permanent marker, moth wing, thread, plexiglass. 134 x 84cm. © and courtesy the artist.