TINY FEST. 2024
ARTISTS & PERFORMANCES
The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
Oli Mathiesen, Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer
An endurance-based dance work to the booming techno album ‘Nocturbulous Behaviour’ by Suburban Knight. The atmosphere and culture of a 3-day rave condensed into an hour.
A Short History of Asian
New Zealand Theatre
Punctum Productions
Nathan Joe
An Asian performer delivering a presentation on Asian New Zealand theatre history while riding a stationary bicycle.
Soft Phase -
Olivia McGregor
Sitting between trance and entrancement, dance and sound will lead the way for collective deactivation and unsubscribing.
Blurring The Self
Verónica Peña
Evolving participatory performance and video art work, exploring the underwater metamorphosis of the self, as it strives for both individual and collective harmony.
A Body at Work
Frankie van Kan
Honest, humorous, and heartfelt journey of a sex worker asking the question—will they love me at my Madonna when they’ve relished me at my whore?
Stripped Queer
Frankie van Kan
Four queer artists reading their own writing and published queer literature, wearing absolutely nothing.
ill-edge-able inkscription
Joanna Cook &
Steve Lovett
Drawing from print techniques and choreographic practice, the project animates ink, transforming texts by transmitting, transferring, translating, transposing.
Let Loose!
Tane Te Pakeke-Patterson, Humble Cowboy Productions
Participatory experience that allows people to live out their superstar fantasy in a non-judgemental environment.
the all / clear /
Hester Ida and the Music
An intimate journey of sound, word, and song. Youth, love and human experience are held up to the light in an open-armed, unforgettable ode to self-government and love.
Dance Library
Dimenti
Artists transforming their bodies into “living books” to share with the public memories linked to dances that marked their lives and contexts.
Tapa Workshop – The Feke and The Fish
Tui Emma Gillies & Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows
Live workshop-performance using traditional and contemporary tools and materials.
Plant Table
Gregory Lorenzutti
& Carol Brown
Performance activation entangling humans and plants in dances of relation.
IN/DIGITAL SPACES
Bea Gladding, Nicholas Ahu Gartner, Janaye Henry, Shaun McTague
What it means to be Māori in a digital space, inviting the audience to step inside a representation of Māori computational existence.
Sonant/Sonnet
Thea Lucia Martin
Participatory art-making experience that blurs the boundaries between workshop and performance, inviting to engage in collective listening, group vocalization/meditation, movement and score-making.
Low Circulation
Brent Harris
and Friends
Engaging Kazuo Ishiguro’s (2021) novel Klara and the Sun, in its ‘home’ in Tūranga, as the project’s field-of-play.
Cryptid Crybz
Cryptids Club
An interactive installation and pocket dimension that holds space specifically catered to Takatāpui youth.
Integral [Games]
Cris Obregon
Integrating art and creativity into play, transforming it into a shared, collaborative experience.