Category: Featured

‘The call’

The action is a response to gender mannerisms and the perception of self-identification embedded in the structures of heteronormative society. Coinciding with the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, and guided by the principles of 2024 International Art Exhibition, PERFORMATICA...

/ 22nd August 2024

‘SALUT’

From: "Salut' - Scott Lawrie Gallery - Auckland - 1st December 2022 - Credits: Vinayak Garg Salut: An essay by Robyn Peers. Salut, hi, is an  informal welcome derived from the Latin salve, a greeting originally meaning be well, good...

/ 17th February 2023

‘NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS’ & ‘NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS – CONCERTO’

From: 'Not as simple as it sounds'. Audio Foundation, (Auckland 2021). Credits: V. Garg From: ‘Not as simple as it sounds’. Audio Foundation, (Auckland 2021). Credits: V. Garg From: ‘Not as simple as it sounds’. Audio Foundation, (Auckland 2021). Credits:...

/ 21st January 2022

The ‘X’ diaries

That morning I woke up with sore skin. A new area in my body had been attacked aggressively and I had a high temperature together with the signs of a mild headache.

/ 27th August 2019

‘X’ one to one durational performance

Black 'X' - Limited edition print. Credits: Craig Ray In 'X' the artist stands behind a custom made polling booth and invites the audience to 'secretly' mark his hands with the 'X' symbol using a tattoo machine. Each member can...

/ 27th August 2018

‘AN OPEN WOUND’

From: 'An Open Wound', performance in Collaboration with Simon King. Featured in Deep Trash Romance. Working Men's Club, (London 2018). Makeup: Agnė Bučmytė, Costume Design: Zilard Sabo, Picture by Martina O'Shea In 'An open wound', the artist opens a wound...

/ 22nd February 2018

‘SPOTLIGHT’

I stand in a room in the dark. The audience can enter the room one person at a time and contemplate the palms of my hands softly lit by a spotlight. From: 'Spotlight', performance. Featured in the exhibition 'Experimenting with...

/ 9th November 2016

‘An object of study’

“I trust the audience. I don't just consider it merely to be an audience. Once we are in the same room at the same time and we are all focusing on each other, the audience is performing as much as...

/ 26th September 2016

‘Fountain’

In 1917, Duchamp changed the original significance of a urinal, re-contextualizing it as a work of art, with the aim to shift the focus from art as mere physical crafting to a deeper intellectual interpretation. Gender is often something I...

/ 25th September 2016