Arts and culture in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Steph Walker reviews the first night of Electric Bodies, presented by Performance Art Week Aotearoa and TINYFEST, at the Cloiters Studio, Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, Friday 13 March 2026. Performance Art is one of those forms that a lot of people haven’t actually seen, but probably have a view on. Like contemporary… Continue reading Review: Electric Bodies – eclectic performance works exploring body and sound
Erin Harrington responds to Ariā, created and performed by Juanita Hepi (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Wai, Moriori, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi), with artistic direction from Julia Harvie, from 2-245pm on Saturday 22 January 2022 at the installation Isolation Hotel at Canterbury Museum. Multidisciplinary storyteller Juanita Hepi is one of the busiest and most interesting creatives in Ōtautahi.… Continue reading Review: Ariā I and II – voices of longing, absence and connection
The performance research project Headless Women asks: what are the politics of being seen? How do women find a place to exist in a world that asks them to be, on one hand, hypervisible and objectified, and on the other, silenced and invisible? Can dance and movement offer us a different way of speaking, when… Continue reading Headless Women and the politics of being seen
Flat City Field Notes 