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.