An Underwater Love Poem Plus Campy Over-the-Top Spectacle

An Underwater Love Poem Plus Campy Over-the-Top Spectacle

The Performance Arcade is an annual Live Art mini-festival and programme of free events located on Wellington Waterfront. Using a series of architecturally arranged shipping containers, the Arcade creates a string of spaces for installation, performance art, sonic art, audio-visual art, interactive media, culinary art and live music.

Artistic Director Sam Trubridge is pleased to present a line-up of 18 exciting new works, both local and international, from seasoned Arcade artists to first time participants.

Watch out for Welcoming Party’s Welcome-Mobile, a four-wheeled quadricycle-cum-parade car taking to Wellington’s waterfront in Complimentary Service. Playfully referencing and critiquing nationalistic spectacles such as the Wagah Ceremony, the Olympic Games, or more pertinently perhaps to New Zealand, the Rugby World Cup, there is a daily programme of events including a flag raising ceremony.

Fascinated by the aesthetic characteristics and poisonous nature of Chrysaora Colorata, the scientific name given to the jellyfish, Denise Batchelor has created a moving image work reflecting a binary in which seduction and aversion are somehow entangled. This is the artist’s first foray into an underwater realm, and draws upon a contemplative aspect to her practice that elicits a greater sense of connection with her subjects.

An underworld forest of timber piles and tidal fluctuation is explored by Julieanna Preston, an architectural designer and spatial artist who probes the performative agency of materials through the mediums of creative work and a spatial writing practice. water-logged is an extended love poem, performed with the fluid urban interior, and will be on view in a shipping container adjacent to the swimming hole.

Seasoned Arcade artist and fresh from previewing Circular Ruins II at The Performance Series, Johann Nortje has built a machine that produces drawings from a series of algorhythms that respond to the presence of the audience, meticulously scribing concentric lines from central point to produce amoebic shapes, creating an historical image of that day and that audience.

THE PERFORMANCE ARCADE 2016
presented by THE PLAYGROUND NZ LTD and The Arcade NZ Live Art Trust

2- 6 March 2016, Wellington Waterfront behind Te Papa, FREE
Wednesday 6-11pm, Thursday – Sunday 10am-11pm

www.theperformancearcade.com

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