May Symposium
Saturday 22 May, 12 noon
Tyler Cann
One artist: one curator, eight shows
This talk is about curating the Len Lye Collection and Archive at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Focusing on selected exhibitions, including ‘Len Lye: Body English’, ‘The Cosmic Archive’ and the 2009 retrospective at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the talk explores the potential for solo exhibitions to unfold various facets of an artist’s practice and activate a collection in the process.
Tyler Cann is the Curator, Len Lye at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. He has lectured internationally on Len Lye and kinetic sculpture in the 1950s and 1960s and curated several exhibitions of Lye’s work at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, including Individual Happiness Now!, Body English, and Five Fountains and a Firebush, and The Cosmic Archive. Cann co-curated the 2009 Len Lye retrospective at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, and was a contributing co-editor of the recent monograph on the artist’s work. His current projects include a survey of Lye’s work at IKON Gallery, in Birmingham, UK.
