Thursday, 22 April 2021, 3:55 pm
Join artist Billy Apple and Adam Art Gallery Director
Christina Barton for a performance of the recorded sound
piece,
Glass Transformation, 1972. This is the
work’s first presentation in Wellington and is programmed
to coincide with Kate Newby’s major exhibition
YES
TOMORROW, which also features works made with broken
glass collected for the occasion.
The sound recording is
the only tangible remainder of a three-part project
conceived and executed by conceptual artist Billy Apple and
experimental composer Annea Lockwood over three years
between November 1970 and April 1972.
Glass
Transformation was first presented on the evening of 7
April 1972 at 98 Greene Street Loft, an alternative space