John Lyall | Performance and Floor Talk

2.00pm Saturday 13th June

It is thirty years since Lyall began this painstakingly detailed body of drawings. Lyall constructed ten detailed mazes by hand that numerically reveal the order in which they have been created. He states, 'I was interested in the idea of turning myself into a machine to subvert my every natural instinct in art making. The works are everything I'm not to the nth degree'.

First performed in Sarajevo, Lyall's politically layered performance attempts to come to terms with a lost technology in the drawings and the time that has passed since they were created.

Get here and home for FREE! - Catch a free bus to and from Te Tuhi.
1.30pm meet outside ARTSPACE at 300 Karangahape Rd

Select > Effect > Export
John Lyall, Simon Morris, Sarah Munro, Rose Nolan, DJ Simpson

25 April 2009 - 12 July 2009

Select > Effect > Export presents a selection of projects that approach mathematical and mechanical methods of art production. Traversing from the miniature to the enormous, the exhibition explores calculated procedures of scaling up and reducing down linear form. From a large-scale typographic wall piece by Rose Nolan, to the machine carved objects of Sarah Munro, to an intricate set of hand produced drawings by John Lyall based on the 1mm grid of architectural drafting film, Select > Effect > Export approaches rule-based procedures of art fabrication and asks: what can be learned from mimicking machines?