testhp - Performance Art Week Aotearoa

PAWA

2023

1st

5th

1st-5th November

Performance Art Week Aotearoa

Wellington

2023 Festival

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

Performance

Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 1

A Collection of breath and wind was presented

Thu 2 Nov 7:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

restless manoeuvers

Restless maneuvers performed the material and spatial terrain of the Ada...

Wed 1 -

Sun 5 Nov

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Nelson

PAWA TOUR 2023 Nelson

18a Vanguard

Performance

Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted

Feather Messages: the ones we take for granted held space for intimate c...

Sat 4 -

Public Space

Performance

Motueka

PAWA Tour 2023 Motueka

Zappekin Artists & Allies

Performance

Avoidant Attachment

An absurd task was undertaken: to be covered in temporary tattoos and th...

Sat 4 Nov 4:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Dunedin

PAWA TOUR 2023 DUNEDIN

Yours

Performance

To watch something in person?

'To watch something in person?' investigated autonomy, labour, boundarie...

Wed 1 -

Thu 2 Nov

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Penelope’s Window

A performance that played on and critiqued our notions of discovery, voy...

Thu 2 -

Sat 4 Nov

Public Space

Performance

Opening Night

We joined to celebrate the opening of PAWA 2023

Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Auckland

PAWA Tour 2023 Auckland

RM Gallery

Performance

Hamilton

PAWA Tour 2023 Hamilton

Ramp Gallery

Performance

Christchurch Friday

PAWA Tour 2023 Christchurch

Altiora

Performance

Pieces of the island (from island to island) Part 2

Facing the inevitable wind, we met the wind together.

Sun 5 Nov 3:00PM

Public Space

Performance

Als Ich Fortging

My performance acknowledged the unseen and ascribed an a-spiritual state...

Thu 2 Nov 6:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Christchurch Saturday

PAWA Tour 2023 Christchurch

Altiora

Performance

Against Embodiment: Anti-Human Garbage in a forest of Nihil

A dense kinetic installation built from local rubbish was brought to lif...

Fri 3 Nov 8:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Performance

Artist Grant

An artist who could 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

ouie Zalk-Neale was draped with kawe ~ woven tī kōuka carrying straps ~ ...

Wed 1 Nov 6:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Listen, Learn & gather

Gathering

Surprise! Scores!

Something very fun and exciting happened

Sat 4 Nov 9:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Workshop

Body Otherness & Depersonified Object-ification Workshop

We explored uses and interpretations of the body outside an anthropocent...

Sun 5 Nov 11:00AM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

Workshop

The privacy of sound

Collectively, attendees were invited to create a bespoke gallery 'noise'...

Thu 2 Nov 12:00PM

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

Workshop

Christchurch Sunday

PAWA Tour 2023 Christchurch

Altiora

Discussion

To burn, to run from and make peace with

'how can performance art be engaged with through tactics of questioning,...

Fri 3 Nov 12:00PM

Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

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

2023 performing artists

Forest VickyKapo

enormousface

Leafa Wilson & Olga Krause

Tomasz Szrama

Josie Archer

Kosta Robert Bogoievski

Louie Zalk-Neale

John Vea

Layne Waerea

Julieanna Preston

Audrey Baldwin

EunSun Heo

Noel Meek

Ivan Lupi

Sam Trubridge

val smith

Announcing 2023 Artists

Louie Zalk-Neale

Forest VickyKapo

Ivan Lupi

Sam Trubridge

Josie Archer

enormousface

Julieanna Preston

val smith

Journal

Albarkas: A response

journal

Response

Festival overview by Frances Pavletich

journal

Opinion

Jazmine Rose Phillips on Leafa Wilson

journal

Interview

Jazmine Rose Phillips on EunSun Heo's 'Pie...

journal

Interview

Quinoa on 'Penelope's Window' by Sam Trubr...

journal

Response

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

5 Days

Performances

Exhibits

Workshops

Discussions