Continuum – Len Lye  2024

As part of Len Lye: Motion Compositions at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, Taranaki-born choreographer Sophie Gargan has produced a new movement work entitled Continuum (2024) to be performed under Sky Snakes (1965/2020) across the duration of the exhibition.

The work responds to the artistic intentions underpinning Len Lye’s practice and his understanding of audience experience as a relational exchange of energy ̶ between bodies and kinetics, flesh and steel, cellular metabolisms, and electrical systems.

In Continuum, Gargan attunes each movement to her embodied sense of weight, sensation, and energy. Through duplication, the performance unfolds as a gramma of movement through conscious mental attention to each physical impulse.

Image credit: Continuum (2024) a choreographic performance by Sophie Gargan commissioned by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre as part of the exhibition Len Lye: Motion Compositions. Sound design Daisy Wells, cinematography Jake Munro. Audio material Len Lye, circa 1960s © and courtesy Len Lye Foundation.

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