Len Lye, A colour box, 1935. Colour, moving image, sound, 4:00 min. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation. From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision.
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govettbrewster.comPerformance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Universe,Watusi, and Blade, could be read not only as kinetic sculptures, but as musical instruments, with each programmed sculpture performing a unique composition of motion and sound. Lye riffed with steel, exploiting its undulating wave forms, sonic frequencies, and light-reflective properties. His sculptures are energetic systems in themselves, enacting a relational transmutation of energy and feedback between sculptural objects and bodies in a shared vibration.
Price
- Free
Date
- Sat 06 Dec — Mon 16 Mar
Time
- 10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Address
- Govett Brewster Art Gallery
- 42 Queen Street
- Ngāmotu New Plymouth
Performance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Universe,Watusi, and Blade, could be read not only as kinetic sculptures, but as musical instruments, with each programmed sculpture performing a unique composition of motion and sound. Lye riffed with steel, exploiting its undulating wave forms, sonic frequencies, and light-reflective properties. His sculptures are energetic systems in themselves, enacting a relational transmutation of energy and feedback between sculptural objects and bodies in a shared vibration.
