PAWA
xTINY
2026
ARTISTS & PERFORMANCES
Untimely: Threshold
Ivan Lupi
The performer explores anticipation through time and sound, staying entirely within the act of preparation. By foregrounding the incidental sounds of getting ready, it treats preparation as the performance itself, questioning when artistic labour is recognised as such.
Violin Mantis
Sarah Elsworth x Anita Clark
Opening a speculative sensory laboratory of sound, movement, and image, the audience is welcomed into a science-fiction room.
a body and a body of water
Jazmine Rose Phillips
A live performance where water becomes a living archive, exploring vulnerability and reciprocity through movement and immersion, generating sound via skin, breath, and water as collaborator and instrument.
Toad Hole
Cindy Yunha Jang x Sung Hwan Bobby Park
Shifting through the toad’s spell-like form, bodies build makeshift homes and shelters, echoing “두껍아 두껍아,” tracing remnants through moulds and hollows—ending, perhaps, in a collective karaoke release.
Capacitive Touch
Adam Ben Dror x Uncredited Performer
Performers engage obsolete smartphones, iPads, and Bluetooth speakers as misbehaving instruments, coaxing them back through touch and interference, creatively misusing abandoned devices until unexpected sounds begin to emerge.
Roto/Matter/Tū/Gather
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann x Clare Luiten
An improvised performance weaving sensations, language, and shifting scales—restless yet grounded. Dancing inner and outer worlds, it invites presence, dreaming together, and pulling meaning from darkness, connection, and shared becoming.
Soft Mouths | The language of fffflowers
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
A solo performance-installation resisting subject and pushing composition, blending sound art, handcraft, and theatre through speech habits, chit-chat, and found sounds, inviting playful, rigorous listening shaped by drift, loss, and relation.
Surprise! Tāmaki Makaurau
Various artists
Adhoc live collective performance by (some) artists and audience members
Cataclysmic Catalyst
Alan Schacher
Chasing sound that precedes and overwhelms, this work explores response before hearing, silence within cacophony, and a past improvisation shaped by a difficult soundtrack—echoed by an unresolved, ambiguous reception.
UNTIMELY: A Somatic Archeology of Displacement (Durational)
Ivan Lupi
Through sustained improvisation, gestures, sounds, and objects collide within one body, exploring cultural displacement and identity as ongoing negotiation—inhabiting friction and strangeness rather than seeking harmony, resolution, or fixed belonging.
O Que Estamos Fazendo | What We Are Doing
Josiah Morgan x Dominic Hamilton x Dispendio Grupo (BR)
A new performance work exploring the topography of cultural exchange and the impossibility of perfect translations. Performed in both English and Português.
Tērā
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
An improvised performance in collaboration with the Ōtākaro catchment, where body and place merge as estuary and terrain, unfolding through listening, play, and song—found fragments in motion, in relation, in being.
Surprise! Ōtautahi
Various artists
Adhoc live collective performance by (some) artists and audience members
Catchment Listening (Workshop)
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
A physical training workshop guided alongside the Ōtākaro catchment, exploring movement, objects, voice, and improvisation—drawing from somatic and contact practices, inviting participants to play, witness, and engage embodied performance in relation.
Sound Walk (Workshop)
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
A group workshop inviting participants to create and experience a sound walk, experimenting with everyday objects, speech, and deep listening before venturing into the streets to explore sound together.
Green Sites (Workshop)
Sarah Elsworth
A workshop exploring site-responsive performance through movement, environment, memory, and community, using simple scores and improvisation to create collaborative “microscapes” shaped by the park as an active creative site.
Echoes in the Present (Workshop)
Ivan Lupi
A two-hour workshop exploring memory as a tool in live art, focusing on embodied mnemonic practices and transforming memories into action, examining challenges, applications, and their potential within performance.