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PAWA

Artist Talk   +   Participatory Workshop   +   Public Performance

Performance Art Week Aotearoa

PAWA BRINGS TOGETHER PERFORMANCE ARTISTS FROM ACROSS AOTEAROA AND THE WORLD TO PRESENT PERFORMANCE ART WORKS, WORKSHOPS, DISCUSSIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND HAPPENINGS ACROSS AOTEAROA. 
 
PAWA IS PRESENTED AND CURATED BY SARA COWDELL. 
 

UNTIMELY_ A Somatic Archeology of ...


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Tērā by Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann


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PAWA 2026 Electric Bodies
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PAWA 2023
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PAWA 2024 ALBARKAS
PAWA 2023
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PAWA performance art festival 2019
PAWA 2019

Sara Cowdell (Founder and Artistic Director) says that most performance artists “have an inherent sense of being an outsider.” She speaks about having to be willing to distort your image or the one that society has of you, to be willing to “expose or embarrass yourself.” For Sara, performance art is about the urge for chaos and it appeals to people who are interested in social dynamics. Or, as Carl Naus (Tech Support) puts it, performance art “hacks social understanding.” “To do good performance art you have to have good social acuity,” Carl says –  “or none,” Sara replies without missing a beat.

 

– Frances Pavletich
Ungovernable by Max Lowe
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