Interlaced: Animation and Textiles

Author: Alla Gadassik
Publisher: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre

Interlaced: Animation and Textiles explores the layered relationship between these two artforms. This lavishly illustrated book covers more than a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Braiding together analogue and digital media, Interlaced explores the enduring capacity of textile forms to make visible animating forces and to reanimate intergenerational memory. Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, the book features the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films and weave digital tapestries.

Curator and media scholar Alla Gadassik proposes a textile genealogy of animation tied to dancing veils, weaving samples and patterned barkcloth. The work of renowned filmmaker Len Lye serves as a connective thread in her account of textile traditions and forms that have shaped animation. Interlaced explores animated cloth as a technology of enchantment, reveals the fabric of film and digital imaging, contends with feminised labour sustaining textile and media production, and traces globally distinct lineages of animated textiles.

ALLA GADASSIK is a scholar, writer and curator of animation and contemporary media art. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, Canada), where she founded the Animate Materials Workshop. The Animate Materials Workshop is dedicated to animation as a method of interdisciplinary material inquiry that bridges the arts and sciences. As International Film Curator in Residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre (2022–25), Alla authored the book Graphite: Animated Traces (2024) and developed Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, the large-scale group exhibition that occasioned this publication.

ISBN: 978-1-0670282-1-3
Publication date: March 2025
Author: Alla Gadassik
Editor: Zara Stanhope
Copy Editor: Marie Shannon
Design:Tana Mitchell
Exhibition Photographer: Sam Hartnett

Softcover 
Full Colour
250 x 176 mm
148 pages