The Big Recycle with Evelyn Roth

Join us at the Gallery for a special afternoon with artist Evelyn Roth, whose work is now on view in the exhibition Kids Take Over!

Bringing together visitors of all ages, this event will celebrate Roth’s extensive body of work created over the past fifty years and introduce her practice to a new generation of art lovers.

The program will begin with Roth’s storytelling performance Vancouver Slide Dress. Assistant dancer Christine Elsey will be dressed in Roth’s wearable art and will use special flashlights to project images and colours onto the walls, while Roth tells stories about the slides as they appear. The images shown will take the audience back through time to discover Roth’s community engaged practice over the years, including her fabric ceilings and murals for the World Habitat Forum in Vancouver in 1976; her recycled video tape car cozy and entry canopy at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Spokane Expo in 1976; and 200 street banners, each made by children in Vancouver in 1979 for the International Year of the Child. This performance will be accompanied by live music performed by Ray Fuse and the In Fuse Band. Also, Sydney/Eora-based film collective Garden Reflexxx will present a new video-poem featuring Roth, co-produced by frequent collaborator Alison James.

Following Vancouver Slide Dress, Roth will lead the audience in a collaborative weaving project—ideal for children and families! Inspired by Roth’s work, participants will experiment with upcycled materials and the weaving processes that are central to Roth’s practice.

This program is designed for visitors of all ages.

FREE for children 18 and under. Free for members or with Gallery Admission.

Capacity for this event is limited. Registration is required.

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EVENT PROGRAM

1 PM – Storytelling Performance with Evelyn Roth and the In Fuse Band

2 PM – Collaborative Weaving Project with Evelyn Roth

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Currently based in Australia, Evelyn Roth is a multimedia artist who was active in Vancouver in the 1960s and 70s. Roth was a founding member of Intermedia, an important group of artists, musicians, filmmakers and dancers who adopted a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to art making. Working within this experimental milieu, Roth developed a highly original practice and became known for producing wearable artworks and ambitious installation pieces constructed by knitting and crocheting recycled materials like video tape and yarn. Now a senior artist, Roth continues to practice, to perform and to conduct public workshops.

Ray Fuse is a singer, dancer, composer, wearable artist and producer of digital artworks. His paintings, drawings and prints have been displayed in private and public art gallery exhibitions since the 1970s. Fuse’s collaborations with internationally renowned performers have been archived in digital formats through his Sacred Sound and Vision Productions for public broadcast.