Te Papa’s fore­court may look as if it’s under attack by giant glit­tery space balls, but it’s actu­ally the start of a two-year kin­et­ic sculp­ture install­a­tion called “The Mimet­ic Broth­er­hood”, by Peter Trev­ely­an.

Attack of the mutant glitterballs!

There’s not much kin­es­is evid­ent at the moment, but once the install­a­tion is com­plete, expect the plinth-eat­ing mon­sters to start pulsat­ing in their full hydraul­ic glory.