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Interlaced: Animation & Textiles

Writer

Alla Gadassik

Price

$50.00

Date

2024

Publisher

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre

Format

Catalogues

ISBN

9781067028213

Size

18 × 25 cm

Length

143 pp

Genre

Film & Cinema, Textile

Interlaced: Animation & Textiles explores the layered relationship between these two artforms. This lavishly illustrated book covers more than a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Curator and media scholar Alla Gadassik proposes a textile genealogy of animation tied to dancing veils, weaving samples and patterned barkcloth. She explores animated cloth as a technology of enchantment, reveals the fabric of film and digital imaging, contends with feminized labour sustaining textile and media production, and traces globally distinct lineages of animated textiles.

Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, this book features the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films and weave digital tapestries.

Featured artists: Faig Ahmed, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Jon Michael Corbett, Kelly Egan, Sione Faletau, Footprints Studio, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Marguerite Harris, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Len Lye, Jodie Mack, Lindsay McIntyre, Huw Messie, Miracle de Mille, Ng’endo Mukii, Kate Nartker, Ishu Patel, Pathé studio, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Harry Smith, Studio Zeitguised, Caitlin Thompson, Vaimaila Urale, Jennifer West, Jordan Wong, Shaheer Zazai.

Alla Gadassik is a film scholar and curator of animated media. She is the author of Graphite: Animated Traces (2024) and the founder of the Animate Materials Workshop. The Animate Materials Workshop is dedicated to developing animation as a method of interdisciplinary material exploration that bridges arts and sciences.