Digital Artist 'In Residence' Sorawit Songsataya | Len Lye Film-making Practice | Save the Date - Brett Graham Exhibition Opening - 5 Dec 2020
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INVITATION: Exhibition Opening - Sat 8 Aug 2020
Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison
Sorawit Songsataya: Rumours (Mermaid)
Len Lye: The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid
Opening event free | All welcome
Trebuchet performances | 11 am and 2 pm
Curator Tour: Candice Lin's Pigs and Poison | 2.10 pm
Official opening + Sky Snakes and Trebuchet performances | 6-8 pm
Regular Len Lye Cinema
Screenings* | 11 am and 2 pm
Len Lye's Experimental Cinema | 1.30 pm
Inside Candice Lin's LA Studio - Short film | 6-8 pm
8 August will mark all of the galleries in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre being open to the public again – the first time since lockdown.
Join us to celebrate the official opening. We will debut work by acclaimed US-based artist Candice Lin, whose first solo show in New Zealand examines histories of borders and segregation, racial profiling and conspiracy theories, bodies and remedies, viruses and war, as well as a new commission by the first of three Govett-Brewster 2020 Artists ‘In Residence’, Sorawit Songsataya.
It will also launch The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid, which celebrates Len Lye's acclaimed film-making practice, using new methods to present the artist's colourful, experimental films within the gallery environment. An accompanying programme of Lye's most well-known films will also be screened in the Len Lye Cinema.
There will be a curator tour of the new exhibition at 2pm, offering insight behind the works in Lin’s exhibition, followed by an official opening in the evening, including a pre-recorded speech from the artist herself, a chance to see a short film giving an inside look of Lin's LA studio, plus a launch demonstration of one of the most anticipated works on show – a fully-functioning trebuchet.
Sorawit Songsataya:
Rumours (Mermaid)
8 Aug – 15 Nov 2020
Open Window Gallery
A new commission by the first of
Govett-Brewster's 2020 Digital Artists
‘In Residence’, Sorawit Songsataya. Rumours (Mermaid) considers the distance and difference humans construct between themselves and the natural world. Follow the development of Songsataya’s project on our social
media platforms.
Len Lye: The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid
6 Jun – 1 Nov
A celebration of the artist's acclaimed film work; this exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of Lye’s film practice ever seen at the Govett-Brewster, using new methods to present Lye's colourful, experimental films in the gallery environment.
SAVE THE DATE: 5 Dec 2020
Brett Graham:
Tai Moana Tai Tangata
5 Dec 2020
A solo exhibition by Brett Graham
(Ngāti Kōroki Kahukura, Tainui),
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery's 2019
Artist in Residence.
Candice Lin, A Robot Spoke What My Father Wrote, 2019, Photo Ian Byers-Gamber
Sorawit Songsataya, Rumours (Mermaid) (detail), 2020
Len Lye - Trade Tattoo -1937 - Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and the British Postal Museum and Archive - From material preserved and made available by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision
Manukau 2020, video animation still, Brett Graham and Ken Gorrie, Animation Research Ltd.
*normal ticket entry applies for regular cinema screenings
