Action art and Live art in New Zealand.
toi whakaari i Aotearoa.
The aesthetic climate during the 705 in New Zealand saw the beginning of an intense period of experimental performance, video art and conceptual activity that lasted until the mid-805. Artists such as Jim Allen, Billy Apple, Bruce Barber, John Cousins, Phil Dadson, Andrew Drummond, Di ffrench, David Mealing and Nick Spill worked with corporeal and political issues and created
installations that enabled a fuller exploration of aesthetic practice, process and theory. It is possible due to the manifold array of material, to realign and re—negotiate the concept of the
performance impulse in New Zealand art. (Intervention)
Artist and Performance Art Groups
- Artists
- Julia Croft
- Groups
- From Scratch
- Nu Collective
- Virtual Ritualistic Collective
- Wellington Artists Co—Op
- Unresearched
- Jim Allen
- Billy Apple
- Josie Archer
- Audrey Baldwin
- Bruce Barber
- Jess Holly Bates
- Chris Berthelsen
- Jack Body
- Kosta Robert Boroievski
- Chris Cree Brown
- Linda Buis
- John Cousins
- Sara Cowdell
- Phil Dadson
- Enormousface
- Di Ffrench
- Andrew Drummond
- Andrian Hall
- Mark Harvey
- Christine Hellyer
- Inopportune (duo)
- Marcus Jackson
- Zarha Killeen-Chance
- Olga Krause/ Leafa Wilson
- Maureen Larder
- Vivian Lynn
- Nisha Madhan
- Daniel Malone
- Judy McIntsh-Wilson
- David Mealing
- Leon Narbey
- Louie Neale
- Tawhanga Nopera
- Melanie Oliver
- Sung Hwan Bobby Park
- Jazmine Rose Phillips
- Julieanna Preston
- Laura Preston
- Pauline Rhodes
- Peter Roche
- JK Russ (working US)
- val smith (Pākehā, they/them)
- Nick Snowball
- Nick Spill
- Sam Trubridge
- Kalisolaite ‘Uhila (Bo. Tonga, working New Zealand)
- John Vea
- Elliot Vaughan
- Layne Waerea
- Alexa Wilson
- Leafa Wilson/ Olga Krause
- Poi – dance form
- Kapa Haka – Dance form
- PAWA Performance Art Festival
- Kiwi Consciousness Contemporary Artists from New Zealand
- PERFORMANCE ART WEEK AOTEAROA
- Intervention Post Object and Performance Art in New Zealand in 1970 and Beyond. Robert McDougalI Art Gallery and Annex. 2000.
- Groundswell: Avant Garde Auckland 1971–79
- Hay, Jennifer: Thresholds : Gesture, idea and action in the Performance Art of Andrew Drummond, Di ffrench and David Mealing
- Hay, Jennifer. Trans-Marginal: New Zealand Performance Art 1970—1985. Intervention:
- The Art of the Heist by Nicholas Spill
- Jim Allen: From Elam to the Experimental Art Foundation by Blair French
- Barber, Bruce. The Gift in Littoral Art Practice
- Barber, Bruce. Littoral Art and Communicative Action. Common Ground Publishing, 2013.
- Christopher Braddock, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Layne Waerea and Victoria Wynne-Jones. Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massey University Press. 2024
- Spill, Nicholas. Art of the Heist
- New New Zealand ‘New Art’ by Prof. Tony Green
- Victoria Wynne-Jones: Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art (2021) Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art deploys a multi-disciplinary approach across dance choreography and evolving manifestations of performance art. An innovative, overarching concept of choreography sustains the idea that intersubjectivity evolves through places, spaces, performance and spectatorship. Drawing upon international examples, the book introduces readers to performance art from the South Pacific and the complexities of de-colonising choreography. Artists Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Jordan Wolfson, Alicia Frankovich and Shigeyuki Kihara are discussed.
