When she moved to Vancouver in 1961, Evelyn Roth joined
Intermedia and became a key practitioner in the international art scene at the time, focusing on art and technology,
wearable art and
video art. During the 1970s Roth focused her practice on knitting and crocheting with recycled materials including television video tape and natural fibres. She created wearable art, textile installations and furnishings. In 1974, her book about her work,
The Evelyn Roth Recycling Book, was published by
Talonbooks. That same year, she joined the British Columbia pavilion at
Expo '74, presenting under a sunsail made of woven computer tapes and videotape. She often adapted the motif of wearables, fabricating work from found materials and ingeniously using them in various festivals, events or exhibitions. From 1973 through the 1980s, Roth explored the intersections of sculpture, dance and the environment and formed the Evelyn Roth Moving Sculpture Company. Where the award winning film
Woven in Time was created in 1974, featuring Roth's textile work and the company in various outdoor settings. It won an ETROG award (Canadian Film Awards) in 1976. Her work became a catalyst for many creators with a wide variety of interests in different countries. Her first trip to Australia was in 1979. In 1981, she was invited to install an interactive display at the
Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer which she created out of discarded television programs (titled
Under the Billabong There Lives A Salmon), then returned to South Australia to work with Pitjitjanjara communities and held workshops in rabbit knit and painted leather garments, as well as crocheting a shade canopy from discarded video tape and play web from nylon. The first showing of
Nylon Zoo in Australia was in 1982 at the
1982 Commonwealth Games in
Brisbane. She has an annual residency with the Storybook Theatre Company in Hawaii. == Exhibitions/festivals/workshops ==