Performance
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Amit Noy and family, A Big Big Room Full of Everyone's Hope
07 September —
01 October 2023
Théâtre de la Ville—Les Abbesses in Paris and National Ballet of Marseille, France
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Li-Ming Hu, If Work
04 August —
19 August 2023
anonymous gallery, New York, USA
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Sam Hamilton with Clara Chon, Dr. Tru Paraha, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Rhonda Tibble, Vaimaila Urale, Te Moana Meridian
25 August —
07 October 2023
Converge 45 at Oregon Contemporary, Portland, USA
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Amrita Hepi, Straight torque, twin series
19 August —
23 September 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
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Alexa Wilson, ALIEN
18 August 2023
CPR - Center for Performance Research, New York, USA
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21 artists from Aotearoa, Edinburgh Festivals
04 August —
28 September 2023
various venues around Edinburgh, UK
Writing
The Octopus Against a Sharp White Background
By Amit Noy
14.05.2023
Writer and choreographer Amit Noy reviews Atamira Dance Company’s performance of Te Wheke in the Lenape territory of New York City, and finds a work enlivened by indelible performances and critical Indigenous inquiry.
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Lemi Ponifasio, Amor a la muerte (Love to Death)
07 July —
08 July 2023
Joliette Theater, Marseille, France
Writing
“I’m a burnt tongue, crying for the promised river.”
By Anne-Marie Te Whiu
28.04.2023
In a wide-ranging conversation ahead of the release of poet and performer Daley Rangi’s poetry collection Burnt Tongue, Associate Editor for HUM Anne-Marie Te Whiu talks with Rangi about the role of stories, language and community, on the Gadigal lands of Sydney, Australia.
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Kate McIntosh, Lake Life
18 May —
21 June 2023
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium & Schäxpir, Linz, Austria
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Martin Patrick, book release, The Performing Observer: Essays on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography
01 March 2023 —
01 March 2028
online and from selected global stockists
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Atamira Dance Company, Te Wheke international tour
21 March —
14 April 2023
various locations in Hawai'i and USA
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NZPQ, 'Ka emiemi' at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023
08 June —
18 June 2023
Holešovice Market, Prague, Czech Republic
Writing
“Sorry … Ummm”: Mystery, Mark Fisher, and Laughter
By Jasmine Gallagher
06.03.2023
Artist Campbell Patterson discusses his recent residencies, delayed by over two years due to the pandemic, at Headlands, Sausalito, and Gasworks, London, with friend and poet Jasmine Gallagher. They share their reflections on institutions of art and medicine, and on carving out their own spaces for the process of creation.
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Aloali'i Tapu, TanzHochDrei, Hamburg and Pacific Dance Festival 2023
15 March —
23 April 2023
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany and online
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Alicia Frankovich, Rich in World/Poor in World
01 April —
22 April 2023
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, Australia
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Sara Cowdell, Micky Duncan-Tubb, Samara Lucich and Jazmine Rose Phillips, LIKE A BURNING STICK SNATCHED FROM THE FLAMES, YET YE HAS NOT RETURNED TO ME
24 March —
31 March 2023
Nextdoor Artist Run Initiative, Brisbane, Australia
Writing
Stories of Becoming
By Harvey Bruce Milligan
15.11.2022
Sitting at a bar assembled from upcycled materials in Taipei, Harvey Bruce Milligan reports from Aotearoa-based artist Xin Cheng’s contribution to IsLand Bar, an annual event in which artists are invited to construct a bar as a platform for performance. Addressing Cheng's use of re-purposed materials as a basis for creativity and connection, he explores the artist's consideration of a broad material ecology and her pursuit of connecting people to the lives of things in a wider project of "regenerative re-making".
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Ivan Lupi and Sara Cowdell, Not as simple as it sounds - Concerto
01 February —
11 February 2023
Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia
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Xin Cheng, DOING EARTH
18 November —
27 November 2022
MOM art space, Hamburg, Germany
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Jen Valender, Broken Chord
02 September —
30 October 2022
The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Booragul, Australia
Writing
FAFSWAG at documenta fifteen
By Will Fredo
20.09.2022
Berlin-based artist and writer Will Fredo discusses the decolonial gestures at play in Aotearoa-based art collective FAFSWAG’s contributions to documenta fifteen, encompassing works that champion unapologetic self-expression, queer joy and the power of futurity in rejecting colonial inheritances.
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Sara Cowdell, 'Houses of Madness' A performance art work
02 July —
03 July 2022
Grace Exhibition Space Upstate, Kingston, New York, USA
Writing
On Civicness and Participating in Public Life through Art Practice - Panel discussion transcript
By Cat Auburn, Daniel Malone, Pauline Autet, Ruth Buchanan
14.12.2021
For Contemporary HUM’s third panel in October 2021, On Civicness, we sat down with Cat Auburn, Ruth Buchanan, and Daniel Malone in Berlin to talk about their practices, recent projects and what “civicness” means to them as Aotearoa artists working abroad—spanning Polish experimental theatre, the memory functions of NFTs and the power relations of collecting institutions. Read the full transcript of the panel discussion here!
Writing
Listening Like Breathing
By Ron Hanson
09.12.2020
Although an influential figure in the development of sound art, New York-based Annea Lockwood hasn't experienced the same level of exposure in New Zealand as she has experienced internationally. In this piece, White Fungus' editor Ron Hanson outlines his journey discovering Lockwood's work and speaks to the artist about her impressive career and pivotal developments in her field.
Writing
Plants, love, and multispecies engagements
By Essi Kausalainen, Robyn Maree Pickens
09.07.2020
After first meeting at the Saari Residence in the southwest of Finland at the start of 2020, Aotearoa writer and poet Robyn Maree Pickens and Finnish performance artist Essi Kausalainen discuss how their diverse practices can mirror each other, about plants and the more-than-human world, along with the ramifications of Covid on their wellbeing and practice.
Writing
Making Art in the time of COVID-19
By Chloe Lane
28.05.2020
Two US-based New Zealand artists - Amy Howden-Chapman in New York and Emma McIntyre in Los Angeles - share their experience of the Covid-19 lockdown, how it has impacted their practice and everyday life, and discuss the possible ecological outcomes of the lockdown, including the shifting of art practices to the online world.
Writing
The Near Side
By Jon Bywater
13.05.2020
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney opened on 14 March 2020 and unfortunately had to close its doors only nine days later due to Covid-19. Prior to its closing, writer Jon Bywater managed to visit NIRIN, looking in particular at participating artists from Aotearoa including Emily Karaka, Elisapeta Heta & John Miller, Lisa Reihana, Kulimoe’anga ‘Stone’ Maka, and FAFSWAG.
Writing
The Discreet Charm of Chance
By Jari Niesner
23.08.2019
In her recent exhibition Following the Rubber Trails, at Frappant Galerie in Hamburg, Germany, Xin Cheng addresses the politics, history and philosophy of rubber, in its varying forms. Writer Jari Nieser explores the artist's performance, film and installation.
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Screaming Strawbears and other Strange Engagements
By Tessa Laird
05.07.2019
From Morris dancing to costume making, Berlin-based artist Matthew Cowan and arts writer Tessa Laird discuss Cowan's interest in folklore, the function of tradition in the modern world and the influence of surrealism on his practice. Cowan's exhibition The Scream of the Strawbear opens at Kunsthalle Giessen in Germany on 7 September 2019.