In March 2026, PAWA and TINY join forces to bring artists on an INTERxCHANGE between Ōtautahi and Tāmaki Makaurau in a series of performative experiments called ELECTRIC BODIES.
This is a night of experimental sound and performance.
With the provocations of sound as body and body as sound, the artists are invited to experiment with the intersections between sound and body as a driving force. When sound is not the outcome, but the instigator of an action, in what ways can sound provoke new patterns of embodiment, attention, or resistance?
7:45pm-8:20pm Ivan Lupi — UNTIMELY: Threshold
8:20pm-9pm Sarah Elsworth & Anita Clark (MOTTE)— VIOLIN MANTIS
9:00pm - 9:20pm Jazmine Rose-Phillips — a body and a body of water
9:20pm-10:20pm Cindy Yunha Jang & Sung Hwan Bobby Park — Toad Hole
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UNTIMELY: Threshold by Ivan Lupi
This work explores anticipation as something shaped by time and sound within performance. Instead of moving from preparation to performance, the piece stays entirely in the moment of getting ready, making preparation itself the full duration of the work.
The sound environment is formed by incidental noises of readiness—bodies, objects, and technologies coming into alignment before a performance begins. These sounds, usually hidden or ignored, are treated as essential parts of the work rather than as something that comes before it. By remaining in this in-between state, the piece suggests that preparation has its own substance and sense of time. The work ends through an arbitrary interruption, pointing to the external forces that decide when artistic labor is recognized as “performance.”
Violin Mantis by Sarah Elsworth and Anita Clark (MOTTE)
Welcome to the science-fiction room; A violin mantis sways, gesture becomes data, a biological catalogue is composed on the fly. This performance is not observed so much as entered. Fresh from recent collaborations in India, interdisciplinary artists Sarah Elsworth and Anita Clark open a speculative sensory laboratory of sound, movement and image.
a body and a body of water by Jazmine Rose Phillips
A live performance where water acts as a living archive, it explores vulnerability, and reciprocity between the human body and water. Using movement, and immersion, the artist generates sound through the interaction of skin, breath, and water—listening to the body as an instrument and the water as both collaborator and archive.
Toad Hole by Cindy Yunha Jang + Sung Hwan Bobby Park
Moving in and out of the spell-casting shape of a 두꺼비 (toad), the body folds into makeshift homes and sites of safety, echoing the chant “두껍아 두껍아.”
Like children forming a 두꺼비 집 (toad’s house) in the sand, we are constantly searching for new ways to build our lives from what we have. Through creating moulds and hollows from our physical selves, Cindy Yunha and Sunghwan trace the remnants left behind. *This might even end with a karaoke party.
