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Welcome to PAWA 2023! Below is our complete program. While most of our events are free or by koha, we would greatly appreciate your support. Please consider purchasing a festival ticket to access all our events!

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Wednesday
We
Thursday
Th
Friday
Fr
Saturday
Sa
Sunday
Su

01 Wed

Performance
Join us to celebrate the opening of PAWA 2023

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6:00pm - 9:00pm
Opening Night
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
An artist who can promise nothing but potential failure

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Opening Night
Untitled
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Adam Art Gallery spurred by contemporary texts on Māori and Pākehā relations.

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Opening Night
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
To watch something in person? investigates autonomy, labour, boundaries, and (freedom of) movement. It questions how much agency the audience possesses in the face of the artist’s will.

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Opening Night
To watch something in person?
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Louie Zalk-Neale is draped with kawe ~ woven tī kōuka carrying straps ~ and performs to activate a sculptural blue plastic barrel. Seven people can form a circle to direct their focus along radiati...

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Opening Night
Beyond your tadpole stage // your spinal cord dissolves
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Opening Night
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
Opening Night
Untitled
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
Opening Night
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
Opening Night
To watch something in ...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
Opening Night
Beyond your tadpole st...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

02 Thu

Breakfast
A time to come to share a meal, korero and start our day together. All are welcome! 

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9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Adam Art Gallery spurred by contemporary texts on Māori and Pākehā relations.

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10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A collection of videos, installations by our presenting artists

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11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A selection of 5 works from different performance video projects spanning 20 years, each work centres the artist’s own body as social commentary.

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11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Retrospective: Selected 5 videos over 20 years
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Workshop
Collectively you are invited to create a bespoke gallery 'noise' and to consider the socio-legal nature of sound as part of, or incidental to, a performance.

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12:00pm - 4:00pm
The privacy of sound
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
A performance that plays on and critiques our notions of discovery, voyeurism, masculinity and adventure. The audience watches as the artist row in circles around the harbour through a view-finder ...

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3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
My performance acknowledges the unseen and ascribes an a-spiritual state to the internal part of the building and a spiritual state to the air and land immediately outside.

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6:00pm - 8:30pm
Als Ich Fortging
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
To watch something in person? investigates autonomy, labour, boundaries, and (freedom of) movement. It questions how much agency the audience possesses in the face of the artist’s will.

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6:00pm - 8:30pm
To watch something in person?
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
A Collection of breath and wind

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7:00pm
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 1
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Ret...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Workshop
Workshop
12:00pm - 4:00pm
The privacy of sound
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
Performance
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Als Ich Fortging
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
6:00pm - 8:30pm
To watch something in ...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
7:00pm
Pieces of the island (...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

03 Fri

Breakfast
A time to come to share a meal, korero and start our day together. All are welcome! 

View Event

9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Adam Art Gallery spurred by contemporary texts on Māori and Pākehā relations.

View Event

10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A collection of videos, installations by our presenting artists

View Event

11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A selection of 5 works from different performance video projects spanning 20 years, each work centres the artist’s own body as social commentary.

View Event

11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Retrospective: Selected 5 videos over 20 years
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
Panel discussion asking ‘how can performance art be engaged with through tactics of questioning, resisting and embracing

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12:00pm - 1:30pm
To burn, to run from and make peace with
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
A performance that plays on and critiques our notions of discovery, voyeurism, masculinity and adventure. The audience watches as the artist row in circles around the harbour through a view-finder ...

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3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
A dense kinetic installation built from local rubbish, brought to life by strings and collaborative interventions with the audience and Cascadian puppeteer enormousface, the work questions the isol...

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8:00pm
Against Embodiment: Anti-Human Garbage in a forest of Nihil
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Ret...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
Discussion
12:00pm - 1:30pm
To burn, to run from a...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
Performance
8:00pm
Against Embodiment: An...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

04 Sat

Exhibition
A selection of 5 works from different performance video projects spanning 20 years, each work centres the artist’s own body as social commentary.

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11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Retrospective: Selected 5 videos over 20 years
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted holds space for intimate conversation between birds and humans and trees.

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5:30am
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted
Public Space
Gathering
Come start the day moving and grooving

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7:30am - 9:00am
Good Morning Dance Party
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Breakfast
A time to come to share a meal, korero and start our day together. All are welcome! 

View Event

9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Adam Art Gallery spurred by contemporary texts on Māori and Pākehā relations.

View Event

10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A collection of videos, installations by our presenting artists

View Event

11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
A conversation and conversation relay game about the role of play, pleasure and joy in subversion within Performance Art

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12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Joy of Subversion: Conversation hosted by Alexa Wilson
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
A performance that plays on and critiques our notions of discovery, voyeurism, masculinity and adventure. The audience watches as the artist row in circles around the harbour through a view-finder ...

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3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
An absurd task: to be covered in temporary tattoos and then remove them, with or without help from the audience. This work offers a tongue in cheek commentary on commitment, vulnerability, the self...

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4:00pm - 7:00pm
Avoidant Attachment
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted holds space for intimate conversation between birds and humans and trees.

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7:30pm - 8:30pm
Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted
Public Space
Gathering
Something very fun and exciting is going to happen

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9:00pm
Surprise! Scores!
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Ret...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
5:30am
Feather Messages: the ...
Public Space
Gathering
Gathering
7:30am - 9:00am
Good Morning Dance Party
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Discussion
Discussion
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Joy of Subversion:...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope’s Window
Public Space
Performance
Performance
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Avoidant Attachment
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Feather Messages: the ...
Public Space
Gathering
Gathering
9:00pm
Surprise! Scores!
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

05 Sun

Breakfast
A time to come to share a meal, korero and start our day together. All are welcome! 

View Event

9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Restless manoeuvers performs the material and spatial terrain of the Adam Art Gallery spurred by contemporary texts on Māori and Pākehā relations.

View Event

10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Workshop
We will explore uses and interpretations of the body outside an anthropocentric context of head-lead personhood, examining the norms and reification of different body parts and kinds: The Foot King...

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11:00am - 1:00pm
Body Otherness & Depersonified Object-ification Workshop
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A collection of videos, installations by our presenting artists

View Event

11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
A selection of 5 works from different performance video projects spanning 20 years, each work centres the artist’s own body as social commentary.

View Event

11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Retrospective: Selected 5 videos over 20 years
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Facing the inevitable wind, we meet the wind together

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3:00pm - 6:00pm
Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 2
Public Space
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
FREE BREAKFAST
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
10:00am - 5:00pm
restless manoeuvers
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Workshop
Workshop
11:00am - 1:00pm
Body Otherness & D...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Exhibited Works
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Exhibition
Exhibition
11:00am - 5:00pm
Alexa Wilson Video Ret...
Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi
Performance
Performance
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Pieces of the island (...
Public Space

2023 Artists

2023

enormousface

2023

Leafa Wilson & Olga Krause

2023

Noel Meek

2023

Sam Trubridge

2023

val smith

2023

Layne Waerea

2023

EunSun Heo

2023

Audrey Baldwin

2023

John Vea

2023

Tomasz Szrama

2023

Julieanna Preston

2023

Forest VickyKapo

2023

Louie Zalk-Neale

PAWA 2023

PAWA 2023 was made possible by our team of staff and wonderful funders and sponsors.

Creative Director/Curator/Producer:

Sara Cowdell 

 

Co-curator:

Mark Harvey 

 

Designer:

Milan De Maule 

 

Publicist:

Cheree Rider  

 

Writing curator and blog editor:

Sasha Francis 

Creative Director/Curator/Producer 

Co-curator

Designer

Publicist

Writing curator & blog editor

Sara Cowdell

Mark Harvey

Milan De Maule

Cheree Rider

Sasha Francis

Performance Art Week Aotearoa

Performanceartweekaotearoa@gmail

Founder and Artistic Director

Sara Cowdell

Designed by

Milan De Maule

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