Performance

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Rosanna Raymond, Liveworks 2023: OF THE TIME

19 October —
29 October 2023

Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

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Alexa Wilson, Love (in Chaos)

05 September 2023

Scope BLN, Berlin Germany

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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

Writing

Ngā Huarere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: Pacific Weathers

By Melody Nixon

01.08.2023

US- and Aotearoa-based writer Melody Nixon responds to digital artworks in Te Moana Nui a Kiwa; a weather station in the World Weather Network project featuring works by over twenty artists from Aotearoa and Oceania. One of twenty-eight stations in the project, the station featured online artworks by Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Denise Batchelor and Maureen Lander, The Breath of Weather Collective, and a collaboration between Janine Randerson, Ron Bull, Rachel Shearer, Stefan Marks and glaciologist Heather Purdie. Nixon discusses how a selection of these works may reorient our approaches to the climate crisis. 

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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

Hawai'i, New York City and San Diego, 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

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.