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Galley Seniors with Curator, Anna Briers

Galley Seniors with Curator, Anna Briers
When
Fri 12th Jun 2026 10:00am - 11:00am
Where
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

42 Queen Street,
New Plymouth

Cost
Free
Website
www.govettbrewster.com

Seniors takes place from 10 - 11am on the second Friday of each month, with many regulars gathering next door at Monica’s Eatery for a coffee at 9.30am. 

Join this exclusive tour with Anna Briers, Kaitakatū – Senior Curator Len Lye and Contemporary Art, as she leads a focused exploration of Direct Bodily Empathy – Sound, Signal, Feedback.

Centring the exhibition’s proposition of sound as a material force of consequence in the world, audiences will move through works that engage with audible currents, felt vibrations, sirens, and noise. Briers will unpack how artists explore sonic relationalities and the politics of sound—from acoustic ecologies and ear witnessing, to practices that unsettle acoustic histories while affirming Indigenous ways of being and knowing.

You will encounter works that collaborate with more-than-human forces to amplify the voices of weather systems, sonify carbon flows, and attune with the dawn chorus, alongside compositions that act as warning signals—sirens as harbingers of ecological feedback loops.

Framed within the Direct Bodily Empathy series, the tour invites you to sit with urgent questions: What does a healthy ecosystem sound like? What sirens and warnings are needed to survive the future? What can sound do?


Bio:

Anna Briers is Senior Curator Len Lye and Contemporary Art at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre. In 2025 she also curated the BEYOND Sector for sculpture and spatial installation at Melbourne Art Fair; the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission; and These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature at the University of Queensland (UQ) Art Museum.

Image: Yuko Mohri, Decomposition, 2022. Fruit, speaker, cable, wood, computer, dimensions variable. Installation view in Art & New Ecology, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2022. Image: Naoki Takehisa. Courtesy of the artist, Project Fulfill Art Space, mother’s tankstation, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, WHITE SPACE 

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