PerformaceArcade2015The Per­form­ance Arcade is one of those delight­ful yearly Wel­ling­ton events that hap­pen come rain or shine, wind or gale.

The Arcade’s popped up on the water­front every sum­mer since 2011 and the 2015 series kicks off tonight 18th of Feb­ru­ary at 5pm.

It’s run­ning for 13 hours every day – because even artists have to sleep some­times  – for an oh so short but very beau­ti­ful four days, fin­ish­ing  Feb­ru­ary 22nd.

The Arcade exists as an archi­tec­tur­ally arranged string of  Ship­ping Con­tain­ers, along Wel­ling­ton’s Water­front, behind Te Papa. Once the Arcade gets going  it’s hard to miss the delight­ful con­ver­gence of  install­a­tion, per­form­ance art, son­ic art, audio-visu­al art, inter­act­ive media, culin­ary art and live music. For 2015 they’ve cre­ated four com­pon­ents”

  • The Con­tain­er Series: Ship­ping con­tain­er-situ­ated install­a­tions and per­form­ances

  • The City Series: A pro­gramme of per­form­ances and install­a­tions occur­ring along the Wel­ling­ton Water­front or extend­ing into the nearby city

  • The Live Music Series: A sheltered stage behind the Arcade, ideal for live music, culin­ary art and oth­er per­form­ances

  • The Audio-Visu­al Series: A pro­gramme of mov­ing image and sound works installed on screens and pro­jec­tion sur­faces around the Arcade archi­tec­ture.

In anti­cip­a­tion, here’s an awe­some film of the pack-in by Gussie Lar­kin!