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.
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-8:30pm Adam Ben-Dror & Uncredited Performer — Capacitive Touch
8:30pm-8:50pm Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann & Clare Luiten — Roto / Matter / Tū / Gather
8:50pm-9:20pm Antonia Barnett-McIntosh — Soft Mouths | The language of fffflowers
9:20pm-9:50 Adhoc live collective performance by (some) artists - Surprise!
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Capacitive Touch by Adam Ben Dror and Uncredited Performer
Adam Ben-Dror and Uncredited Performer have had an ongoing artistic conversation for a number of years now in which collaboration, experimentation, and improvisation have been pulled open to reveal parts neglected in sound, movement, and physical materials.
Performing experiments from their most recent collaboration they play with obsolete smartphones, iPads, and Bluetooth speakers, treating them less like dead tech and more like stubborn, misbehaving instruments.Once abandoned, these devices are coaxed back into life through interference and touch, creatively misused until sound leaks out.
Roto/Matter/Tū/Gather by Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann and Clare Luiten
An improvised performance: Lives, vibes, sensations, triggers, love, junk, pattern. Forces, scales, language, breath, too many/not enough - fast, faster, Fuck. [Kids want me back, longing for... ?, without them is kinda dull]. Is NZ a dessert? Deep landscapes of sea swell, seaweed, smashing. Trying to embrace all. Go to sleep already. M/other. Ground. Centre.
Stay present and alive; the space is singing. What can we pull from the dark when we dream together?
We are dancing with wholes; inner/outer, micro/macro, not/and/yes. We are dancing the pause and the spiral out. We are dancing these moments of ourselves, with each other, with you.
Soft Mouths | The language of fffflowers by Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
We were kinda talking about this the other day, like-, where it’s like-, resist the subject, push the composition. A solo performance-installation, ‘Soft Mouths | The language of fffflowers’ draws lines between sound art, handcrafts, and experimental theatre. Engaging habits of speech—of conversation, of composition—poiesis and transit, pronunciation and drift, the performance sounds out new and tricky ways of hearing, in a manner of speaking, of relating to deep and careful listening. Playfully combining rigour and whimsy, ‘Soft Mouths’ employs chit-chat, musings, overheard snippets, field recordings, found sounds, and makeshift instruments. onya, on your way, even if you tripped over the chair or something and you d-, oh damn it I’ve got-, gotta (yeah, yeah) push the chair back. you lose something else. that’s gonna-, yeah you have to think about something else. that’s gonna send some stuff out.
