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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Jen Valender, Played as they lay
Spier Light Art Festival, Stellenbosch, South Africa
19 March —
21 April 2021
The third iteration of the Spier Light Art Festival at Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa, presents an array of light, sound and video artworks, including Aotearoa artist Jen Valender's, Played as they lay.
Made in a one-bedroom apartment during lockdown in Narrm/Melbourne, Played as they lay is a video work in which a series of moths are read like braille to compose an accompanying score. The music traces the path of the moths as they were found in pantry traps, transferring the configuration of forms into notes placed on a stave. The mass grave of moths become literal markers, like holes punched into scroll piano sheet music, and are digitally performed by a violoncello, piano and contrabass. The work is looped, breaking down time into shifting frames manually sliding across the screen—referencing the medium of film and early cinema. The moths become a conduit to surface ethical problems, ambivalence and guilt, while resonating with the contemporary experience of living through 2020.
The third iteration of the Spier Light Art Festival at Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa, presents an array of light, sound and video artworks, including Aotearoa artist Jen Valender's, Played as they lay.
Made in a one-bedroom apartment during lockdown in Narrm/Melbourne, Played as they lay is a video work in which a series of moths are read like braille to compose an accompanying score. The music traces the path of the moths as they were found in pantry traps, transferring the configuration of forms into notes placed on a stave. The mass grave of moths become literal markers, like holes punched into scroll piano sheet music, and are digitally performed by a violoncello, piano and contrabass. The work is looped, breaking down time into shifting frames manually sliding across the screen—referencing the medium of film and early cinema. The moths become a conduit to surface ethical problems, ambivalence and guilt, while resonating with the contemporary experience of living through 2020.