Electric Bodies - Christchurch

Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 am UTC+13:00

Christchurch Arts Centre | Christchurch

Performance Art Week Aotearoa
Publisher/HostPerformance Art Week Aotearoa
Electric Bodies - Christchurch
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Ōtautahi Event Page ELECTRIC BODIES
In March 2026, PAWA and TINY join forces to bring artists on an INTERxCHANGE between Ōtautahi and Tāmaki Makaurau in a series of performative experiments called ELECTRIC BODIES.
With the provocations of sound as body and body as sound, the artists are invited to experiment with the intersections between sound and body as a driving force. When sound is not the outcome, but the instigator of an action, in what ways can sound provoke new patterns of embodiment, attention, or resistance?
Powerful, magnetic, dynamic, rousing, voltaic, CHAOTIC, CONSUMING, CALLING YOU.
All events will take place at Cloisters Studio, The Art Centre Christchurch.
(2 worcester blvd, Christchurch City Centre) https://www.artscentre.org.nz/visit/getting-here/
All events in Ōtautahi are koha (donation-pay as you feel) but please give generously within your means, so we can cover our base line costs (recommendation if you have a full time job is $30).
The programme is as follows:

Friday 13 March — 7pm onwards:
Sarah Elsworth & Anita Clark — VIOLIN MANTIS
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh — Soft Mouth | The language of fffflowers
Alan Schacher — Cataclysmic Catalyst

Saturday 13 March — 7pm onwards:
Ivan Lupi — UNTIMELY: Threshold (Durational)
Josiah Morgan & Dominic Hamilton in collaboration with Dispendio Grupo (BR) —
O Que Estamos Fazendo | What We Are Doing
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann — Tērā
Adhoc live collective performance by (some) artists - Surprise!

Sunday 15 March — Workshops:
10:00am–12:00pm
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann — Catchment Listening (Workshop)
1:00pm–3:00pm
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh — Sound Walk (Workshop)
For more information and tickets go to our website:
https://www.performanceartweekaotearoa.com/electric-bodies-christchurch/
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