Get your locomotion on at an art party where moving to psychedelic music, creating clay monsters and dancing to your own heartbeat is the norm.
On Friday, Feb. 24 from 7-10 p.m., the Surrey Art Gallery (SAG) invites you to attend inFlux, a night of hands-on artmaking and live performances that celebrates human kinetics and movement captured through a scientific and technological approach.
They invite artists and art-lovers alike to come and enjoy the exhibitions, make art and hang out with friends.
The event is free and for all ages.
Start the evening by taking in an interactive projection manipulated with 16mm film and colour gels by multimedia artist and filmmaker Alex MacKenzie.
Get funky by creating your own sounds on the “soNio” soundboard created by local community group MakerCube. This invention responds with up to 100 different noises depending on the combination of knobs and dials touched.
Throughout the night, visitors can visualize their own pulse by donning a special heart-activated garment.
Created by artists Brady Marks and Danielle Gotell, these “Heart Throb Heroines” detect a pulse and light up to its beat.
In the program room, DJ and breakdancer Arthur Tiojanco will be lead a dance party.
There are also options for art-makers.
Join local artist Edward Westerhuis in creating a moving picture praxinoscope, similar to how 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge made his iconic animal sequences.
Or head to the studio downstairs to collaborate on a clay mythical creature inspired by Don Hutchinson’s inventive ceramics. Explore Hutchinson’s show, along with our photography exhibits in the main gallery, by playing an art-inspired scavenger hunt led by Surrey Art Gallery’s youth cocents.
The gallery will be the spot to be when writer, DJ, producer and tabla player Tarun Nayar from Vancouver’s popular band Delhi 2 Dublin brings some Asian fusion electronica to the party. Also keep your eyes open for the band Moth Mouth, comprised of Lee Hutzulak and Dave Leith, who will be joined by the psychedelic feedback visuals of Matt Krysko. The band uses analog drum machines and synthesizers to float listeners down spontaneous expansive passages of electronic music.
inFlux is presented by Surrey Art Gallery with Kwantlen Polytechnic University as part of the SAG winter exhibitions on photography and ceramics
SAG gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of Surrey, Province of BC through the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Vancouver Foundation and the Surrey Art Gallery Association.
The SAG is located at 13750 88 Ave. For more information, call 604-501-5566 or visit surrey.ca/artgallery