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Raving 17,736 km from Berlin
On the cusp of launching a new show, ‘The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave’, choreographer Oli Mathiesen jotts down some thoughts about creating this work.
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Swallow Your Grief!
A house slides down from its perch on a cliff and a departed pet is kept in a cake-shaped box in the freezer in this essay from Gurleen Minhas.
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Hopeful Things
In their bad apple debut Aroha Witinitara returns to the trenches of childhood to reflect on adulthood and deliver an optimistic message to their younger self.
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Colville
gorm hendo returns to summers of their youth, running around topless and exploring barefoot and unsupervised in this essay ‘Colville’.
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GROUPIE LOVE
Devon Webb reflects on her experience with groupie culture in Pōneke, the sexism ingrained within the music scene and the essential artistry of being a fan.
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manual focus
kī anthony reflects on childhood trauma and adult agency, as a photographic subject and photographer.
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A Body of Art
In ‘A Body of Art’ multidisciplinary artist Hannah Tasker-Poland writes of creating, performing and her journey to the cabaret-movement performance piece ‘The Most Naked’.
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‘Is That How You Want to End Up?’
‘Past the Tower Under the Tree’ comprises works from twelve artists and activists “crafting a life in community.” In collaboration with GLORIA Books, we present Daniel Michael Satele’s contribution ‘Is That How You Want to End Up?’.
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The Joy of Releasing Music When You Have No Fans (Yet)
Alex de Vries aka adv calls out to his fan, yes, one fan, and lets them know how much of a flop he is.
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To Be Queer in the Aotearoa Summer
“Rather than rural spaces being intrinsically homophobic, I think that there are inaccurate assumptions of queer folk present”. Inspired by the lived experience of queer people, Mik writes about how looking queer impacts experience of place in regional New Zealand.
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Moonlighting
A piece by Dani Yourukova in which a dungeon-crawling, adventure game is also secretly about the relationship between value and time, the evils of capitalism, and the financial precarity that comes with being a working artist.
Category: essay
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