Past event
19 June
17:30
Te Reo o te Whakataukī e Hīkoi Ana
Documentation of IN/DIGITAL SPACES, performed at Tiny Fest 2024.
19 June. Free entry.
Performance duration: 50 min (Approximately)
Date/Time: June 19, 5.30 pm, performance starts 6.00 pm
OFFSITE at Pūmanawa
Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, Boys High Building, First Floor
Te Reo o te Whakataukī e Hīkoi Ana is a performance to support the ideas present in the exhibition IN/DIGITAL SPACES - The Hīkoi epitomises the themes of past, present, future, guided by the whakatauki ‘Ka mua, ka muri’ (walking backwards into the future). Josiah Morgan will actualise through a Hīkoi from Pūmanawa Gallery through the Art Centre, made visible in the gallery space through live stream. We will have warm drinks and light refreshments.
This event is made possible through the support of Tīrama Mai & Te Matatiki Toi Ora, The Arts Centre.
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Bea Gladding (Ngāti Porou / Ngā Puhi) is a creative working across Aotearoa. Her connection to te ao Māori and its values have driven her work in both theatre and music. In Tāmaki Makaurau, Bea was the director of The Jingle Bellethon Telethon (Basement Theatre 2023) and was a performer, co-director and sound designer for Josiah Morgan’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for Auckland Pride in February 2024. Bea also performs regularly under their DJ and production alias MR MEATY BOY. MR MEATY BOY is about avoiding simplistic categorisation of club music and encouraging a more playful and open response from audiences.
Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ōtautahi. His latest book i'm still growing is out with Dead Bird Books now in all good bookstores. His other books were all released in the United States, including his hybrid text The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was performed as a six-hour-long performance artwork in Auckland Pride 2024. He believes in magic and the power of words to transform, & a free Palestine.