Exhibition

New Zealand Perspectives at Piha

Drowning doesn’t look like drowning. There’s no screaming, no waving of arms. It’s quiet and undramatic from the surface. Drowning people can’t call for help, they can’t wave for help. Their bodies trap them in an effort to survive, which in many cases, fails. Drownings haunt our beaches, and none more so than Piha. That beautiful, […]

Art In The Dark

When Auckland decides to come out, oh baby do they come out and this week is one to watch. The theatres are all pumping and Art In The Dark is back to play. Across four evenings, Thursday to Sunday (13-16th November), 8pm til midnight Western Park will be lit up with beautiful and interactive light displays. […]

Art Week // Te Tuhi @ The Silos

Nicolas Kozakis & Raoul Vaneigem; A moment of eternity in the passage of time, 2012 On Friday night I celebrated the end of my second to last placement of my degree by heading to the launch event for Art Week at Silo 6, the gallery made from multiple silos in Wynyard Quarter. It was the opening […]

Street Art // If These Walls Could Talk

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The Performance Arcade

images by jane hakaraia The Performance Arcade is an annual multi art form installation taking place on Wellington’s waterfront. It’s on at the moment by Waitangi Park, so we headed down to check it out. In some ways it’s pretty ‘art wank’, abstract pieces of work that seem to serve no real purpose. But at […]

Babel (Words)

There was once one language, a common speech shared by all humans. Together humans decided that they would build a tower that would reach the heavens and thereby make their name and unify all humanity. This tower was called Babel. But the Lord saw this and said, “If as one people speaking the […]

En Route

On Monday I went En Route. An aural, visual, disconnected tour of Auckland CBD created by Australian company, One Step At A Time Like This with the help of Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, Paul Moir and Julian Rickert. It may seem odd to be taken on a tour of Auckland by an Australian company, but […]

Breath of the Volcano

French pyrotechnics Groupe F do not just put on firework shows. Yes, their shows have huge bangs, flying and fire tricks but it wouldn’t really fit to call them a circus either. Instead Groupe F is best described as creating magic, dreams. It’s magical realism in action and unlike most firework shows, their performances are […]

Home Fires Burning

If you follow me on twitter you may remember some talk about poppies – lots of them. Over the last week I spent a lot of time putting poppies together for a swish exhibition my design dream team parents were working on – Home Fires Burning. The poppies were part of my mother, Jane Hakaraia’s […]