INTERxCHANGE
2026
ARTISTS & PERFORMANCES
Tiny Grem Party
Gremlins +
Featured Artists
Tiny Fest and Gremlins reunited for a 2nd edition of the Tiny Grem Fest, this time to celebrate the opening of the Tiny Fest weekend hosting an evening of Poetry, Performance, and experimental DJ sets.
Looking
Ivan Lupi
For 12 hours, a body stands in the Bus Interchange and returns every gaze that finds it. No breaks. No words. Just looking.
Band on the Bus
Addington Brass Band
Local musicians of Addington Brass take audience members on a tour as they perform entertainment music on one of Ōtautahi’s iconic buses.
Fight & Flight: Bus rides
Fight & Flight
Fight and Flight are a clown performance duo compelled to share a surreal and enchanting experience through their souls, and subsequently yours. At Tiny Fest, audience members were invited to join this dynamic comedy-duo on a guided bus experience they were sure to remember!
Nutrient cycle
Jonty Coulson
Nutrient cycling is the biological process through which organic and inorganic matter is transformed, exchanged, and renewed, sustaining life within an ecosystem. In NUTRIENT CYCLE, Jonty Coulson performs this process at a human scale.
Tiny Tipua EP Listening Party
Mana Tipua
Audience joined a listening party on the bus to experience a bold three-track EP by takatāpui rakatahi (Māori, LGBT+ youth), developed through collaborative wānaka in Ōtautahi.
Block Party
Jolt
Jolt brings their Block Party to the people. Audience members become part of the choreography by guiding the energy and unlocking new moments every time they move onto a coloured dot.
Bodega Mart
Isaac Tait
A bus trip took the audience to the Shed Gallery to view the Kiwi absurdist dairy art installation.
Paoraki
Whakawhitia (Ariana Tikao,
Gemma Syme, Nicolas Woollaston)
An exploration of the intersections and the contrasts, the commonalities and the differences, between ancient and modern practices in instrument making, performing, sound making, music making and improvising
Resonance - Gayageum
EK Cho
New encounters lead to resonance: a site-responsive gayageum performance unfolding across buses, station concourses, and public plazas.
Untitled
Kosta Bogoievski
A dynamic ritual invoking the spirit of waste.
Journeys
Amelia Long & Short Order
An immersive live rave performance inside a stationary bus, combining improvised movement and DJing to explore travel, transition, and connection.
Long Table Lunch
Curatorial Panel
Over lunch, Tiny Fest curators, artists and audience members gather for a shared meal and informal conversation to unpack the process of programming a performance arts festival, and the practical realities of shaping a live programme.