Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu, Pākehā) is an Aotearoa-based artist whose practice involves carrying out performance art interventions that seek to question and challenge social and legal rules of preferred behaviour in the public sphere. As a former lawyer, and now a part-time lecturer in law and visual art theory, Waerea uses this experience to inform her performance interventions with a particular focus on how te Tiriti o Waitangi could continue to play a critical role in the developing cultural fabric of Aotearoa New Zealand. Layne Waerea has a PhD from AUT and is a lecturer in the School of Art and Design at AUT, and is the current president of the chasing fog club (Est. 2014).