Live Writing And Mystical Moments to Be Had at Arcade 2016

Wishing Well

Live Writing And Mystical Moments to Be Had at Arcade 2016

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.

The Drowning is a site sensitive and transdisciplinary AV installation featuring a looped video and audio recording of creative writing, created during a residency in Long Island by artists Sally J Morgan and Jess Richards (Aus). Their two artforms feed from each other, they intermingle, reflect, and result in a range of visual and literary presentations.

Seasoned Arcade artist Mick Douglas (Australia) pairs up with Amaara Raheem (Australia) with their performative live writing. Responding to what they experience in the Arcade, wake is a wash of words, sounds and gestures in passages that explore the after-life of the preceding days. They are building field notes from the body across the event, prompting us to be alive in how we incorporate live performance into our worlds. wake is supported by the Bolton Hotel International Programme.

Created from hundreds of peeled cardboard boxes, [PARABOX] tells the story of the artist's perilous life growing up in the Philippines where home and family were built on fragile, uncertain foundations. Josephine Jowett continues to send home huge boxes stuffed full of essential supplies. These ‘balikbayan boxes’ (balik=return, bayan=home) are torn to pieces, and reconstructed into a room-size cave, letting the audience reflect on the ties that bind us all to our homelands.

Dani Terrizzi's work draws from experiences and memories of fleeting moments, environmental sound and non-human entities. An AV installation reveals a mysterious living well inhabiting a dark container environment. Visitors are invited to approach the Wishing Well, to engage with its sensory elements. Touching on human interactions with water, evoking cleansing rituals and sacred pools, this dynamic work combines the physical elements of sound, light, sculpture and water to express the benign and yet potentially destructive nature of water.

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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AWARD WINNING LIVE ART FESTIVAL RETURNING TO WELLINGTON WATERFRONT

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.

Winner of Best Visual Arts, Best Outdoor Show, and Best Production Design at the NZ Fringe Festival, The Performance Arcade returns to its home on Wellington Waterfront behind Te Papa from 2-6 March 2016.

Artistic Director Sam Trubridge has selected a line-up of 18 exciting new works, both local and international, from seasoned Arcade artists to first time participants. Works housed in individual containers, works that travel along Wellington Waterfront, live music from afternoon to evening - the Arcade offers sites for the public to engage in contemporary art and performance practices, while enjoying a beverage from our bar and food stalls.

This is an invitation to discover, play, interact, discuss, and imbibe outside of the typical constraints of gallery or theatre space; to experience personal artistic encounters, live music, and AV installations under the night skies. Hours are 10am - 11pm.

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