Agente Costura
Thu, Sep 14
|Yellowhouse Art Centre
Sewing machine artist, Lisa Simpson, is coming to Galiano, September 14, with her project, Agente Costura


Time & Location
Sep 14, 2023, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Yellowhouse Art Centre, 2517 Sturdies Bay Rd, Galiano Island, BC V0N 1P0, Canada
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About the event
Sewing machine artist, Lisa Simpson, is coming to Galiano, September 14, with her project, Agente Costura
Agente Costura is a participatory performance art project with a musical sewing machine, talking hats and musical handbags. Lisa Simpson is an electronics and noise enthusiast, builder of trashy instruments out of discarded objects. Lisa has been playing the Singer, a sewing machine, since 2003. In the daytime she tackles unwanted clothing, pins them down and cuts them up, transforming them into new wearable shapes. By transforming wardrobes she is questioning contemporary consumption habits, bringing forth a discussion around the sustainability of the fashion industry. At nighttime the Singer joins her fellow musicians and Lisa sews to the beat of the music, improvising on clothing based on rhythm and sound. The prepared sewing machine is amplified to become a musical instrument and layers of sound are looped as layers of fabric are stitched together, creating a…
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