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Join Debra Bustin, Ziggy Lever and Lucy Meyle alongside exhibition curators Simon Gennard and Taarati Taiaroa for a tour of the exhibition Pause, act, void, event. Together, they’ll reflect on beloved works from the Govett-Brewster collection, as well as projects newly realised for the exhibition.
Bustin will share insights into the process of revisiting her site-specific work first realised in 1982. Upon its first public appearance in four decades, and here newly expanded far beyond its original form, hear Bustin reflect on a work that links generations, and offers an affirmation of creative potential, and the continuous process of composition, decomposition and recomposition that propels all life.
Ziggy Lever and Lucy Meyle will reflect on their newly commissioned project for the Open Window. The work departs from an 1882 event in which a batch of silver-gelatin coated glass plates—unknowingly incorporated with gelatin from cows fed on a diet rich in mustard plants—nearly destroyed the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later known as Kodak). Experimenting with the materiality of film—and the grains, pixels and particles that comprise its substance—the work considers the competing agency of humans, plants, animals and technology within the production of images and meaning.
Read more about the Exhibition here: Pause, act, void, event