This tour will focus on key works that follow the turn from the luminal, op and kinetic works of the 1960s, to the conceptual use of language in the 1980s. 

The tour will begin with audio description and strategies using tactile objects in the gallery. The tour will then be followed by tea and coffee in our Creative Studio where we invite participants to engage in an informal discussion along with art making to trace some of the streams that run through the works. 

Lisa Andrew is an artist whose research-based practice and pedagogy centres on the potential of Audio Description (AD) for an inclusive audience by weaving close looking, writing and expression with access in mind. A multisensorial approach that does not privilege sight, which asks, what can Museums do for AD? And what can AD do for writing about art? 

Header image: Jean Tinguely, Bascule no. 1 Sisyphus (See-Saw no. 1 Sisyphus, 1965, Power Collection, PW1967.25

Audio Description: A metal assemblage of three wheels and a curved antenna protruding upwards is hoisted above a set of two parallel rocking chair feet by a connected articulated arm.

The witty junk sculpture, the size of a fridge lying down- at times dormant - is jerked into motion by a motorised foot pedal into to a seesaw of clattering endless repetition

Its matt black skin absorbs light which unifies it to outlines; poised on top of a black lit stage it casts shadows on a white screen behind. 

Tinguely says “We are afraid of movement because it stands for decomposition- because we see our decomposition as movement. Continuous static marches on!”