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?
Performance Art / Sound Art Evening.
7pm onwards: Ivan Lupi — UNTIMELY: Threshold (Durational)
7:10pm-7:50pm Josiah Morgan & Dominic Hamilton in collaboration with Dispendio Grupo (BR) —
O Que Estamos Fazendo | What We Are Doing
7:50pm-8:15pm Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann — Tērā
8:15pm-9pm Adhoc live collective performance by (some) artists - Surprise!
All events will take place at Cloisters Studio within The Art Centre Christchurch.
https://www.artscentre.org.nz/visit/getting-here/
All events in Ōtautahi are koha (donation-pay as you feel) but please give generously within your means, so we can cover our base line costs (recommendation if you have a full time job is $30).
UNTIMELY: A Somatic Archeology of Displacement by Ivan Lupi
Through sustained improvisation the work layers gestures, sounds and objects from different traditions into a single body, creating deliberate collisions that refuse easy harmony. Investigating the perpetual translation occurring in culturally displaced bodies, the work explores identity as an act of continuous improvisation rather than fixed inheritance. What emerges when we stop seeking resolution and instead inhabit the friction, the strangeness, the endless negotiation of belonging nowhere completely?
O Que Estamos Fazendo | What We Are Doing by Josiah Morgan and Dominic Hamilton in collaboration with Dispendio Grupo (São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro).
A new performance work exploring the topography of cultural exchange and the impossibility of perfect translations. Performed in both English and Português.
Tērā by Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
An improvised performance by Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann in collaboration with the catchment of Ōtākaro.
Tērā. There you are. Here we are. This is a listening, a play, a song of found bits and organs in-motion- in-love, as being. This place is a body. My body is an estuary, a terrain. Tērā. There. Now. Then. Koia.
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