PAWA

2023

1st

5th

1st-5th November

Performance Art Week Aotearoa

Wellington

Bringing together performance artists from across Aotearoa and the world to bring a stellar line-up of performance art works, workshops, discussion and happenings to Wellington City

PAWA 2023

Wellington

1st-5th November

Performance art week aotearoa

1st

5th

Bringing together performance artists from across Aotearoa and the world to bring a stellar line-up of performance art works, workshops, discussion and happenings to Wellington City

Bringing together performance artists from across Aotearoa and the world to bring a stellar line-up of performance art works, workshops, discussion and happenings to Wellington City

Upcoming Performances

Upcoming Performances

Performance
Als Ich Fortging
My performance acknowledges the unseen and ascribes an a-spiritual state...
Thu 2 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Against Embodiment: Anti-Human Garbage in a forest of Nihil
A dense kinetic installation built from local rubbish, brought to life b...
Fri 3 Nov 8:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted holds space for intimate ...
Sat 4 -
Public Space
Performance
Opening Night
Join us to celebrate the opening of PAWA 2023
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Avoidant Attachment
An absurd task: to be covered in temporary tattoos and then remove them,...
Sat 4 Nov 4:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
restless manoeuvers
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Ada...
Wed 1 -
 Sun 5 Nov
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Untitled
An artist who can promise nothing but potential failure
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Beyond your tadpole stage // your spinal cord dissolves
Louie Zalk-Neale is draped with kawe ~ woven tī kōuka carrying straps ~ ...
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Penelope’s Window
A performance that plays on and critiques our notions of discovery, voye...
Thu 2 -
 Sat 4 Nov
Public Space
Performance
To watch something in person?
To watch something in person? investigates autonomy, labour, boundaries,...
Wed 1 -
 Thu 2 Nov
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 2
Facing the inevitable wind, we meet the wind together
Sun 5 Nov 3:00PM
Public Space
Performance
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 1
A Collection of breath and wind
Thu 2 Nov 7:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Listen, Learn & gather

Workshop
Body Otherness & Depersonified Object-ification Workshop
We will explore uses and interpretations of the body outside an anthropo...
Sun 5 Nov 11:00AM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Gathering
Good Morning Dance Party
Come start the day moving and grooving
Sat 4 Nov 7:30AM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Gathering
Surprise! Scores!
Something very fun and exciting is going to happen
Sat 4 Nov 9:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
The Joy of Subversion: Conversation hosted by Alexa Wilson
A conversation and conversation relay game about the role of play, pleas...
Sat 4 Nov 12:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
To burn, to run from and make peace with
Panel discussion asking ‘how can performance art be engaged with through...
Fri 3 Nov 12:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Workshop
The privacy of sound
Collectively you are invited to create a bespoke gallery 'noise' and to ...
Thu 2 Nov 12:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

5 days of performances, video works, installations, exhibits, workshops, discussions, dancing and free breakfasts

5 days

performances
video works
installations
exhibits
workshops
discussions
dancing

Festivals

Upcoming Events

Performance
Beyond your tadpole stage // your spinal cord dissolves
Louie Zalk-Neale is draped with kawe ~ woven tī kōuka carrying straps ~ ...
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
restless manoeuvers
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Ada...
Wed 1 -
 Sun 5 Nov
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
To watch something in person?
To watch something in person? investigates autonomy, labour, boundaries,...
Wed 1 -
 Thu 2 Nov
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Untitled
An artist who can promise nothing but potential failure
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted holds space for intimate ...
Sat 4 -
Public Space
Performance
Opening Night
Join us to celebrate the opening of PAWA 2023
Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Against Embodiment: Anti-Human Garbage in a forest of Nihil
A dense kinetic installation built from local rubbish, brought to life b...
Fri 3 Nov 8:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 2
Facing the inevitable wind, we meet the wind together
Sun 5 Nov 3:00PM
Public Space
Performance
Avoidant Attachment
An absurd task: to be covered in temporary tattoos and then remove them,...
Sat 4 Nov 4:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 1
A Collection of breath and wind
Thu 2 Nov 7:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Als Ich Fortging
My performance acknowledges the unseen and ascribes an a-spiritual state...
Thu 2 Nov 6:00PM
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Penelope’s Window
A performance that plays on and critiques our notions of discovery, voye...
Thu 2 -
 Sat 4 Nov
Public Space
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2023 Artists

PAWA 2023: Opening Night
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Between the old world and the new.
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The Purple Walk
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Mending Wellington In Times of Techno-Utop...
journal
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Breaking the conformity pinata.
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PAWA 2023: Opening Night
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Between the old world and the new.
Response
The Purple Walk
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Mending Wellington In Times of Techno-Utopianism

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