Review: Future Playground

Future Play­ground  is a series of booths in Shed 6 which explore digit­al artistry. There are VR videos, games and exper­i­ences along with aug­men­ted art*,  light sculp­tures, and even a music­al med­it­a­tion to try. (Sadly I didn’t have time to try SUBPAC Sound Med­it­a­tion. Every­one try­ing it looked very peace­ful.) There are a lim­ited num­ber […]

Review: Rushes

Circa Theatre has been trans­formed into a series of per­form­ances areas fea­tur­ing music, video, and con­tem­por­ary dance. The audi­ence fol­lows the per­formers as they move through dif­fer­ent spaces until we all end up at the same stage. Rushes is a fas­cin­at­ing and con­tra­dict­ory exper­i­ence. It’s excit­ing to see Circa opened up even though it’s hid­den […]

It’s Festivals time!

It’s almost that glor­i­ous point in Wellington’s cal­en­dar when the New Zea­l­and Fest­iv­al  (23 Feb­ru­ary – 18 March), the Per­form­ance Arcade (23–25 Feb, 1–4 March) the Pride Fest­iv­al (24 Feb­ru­ary – 10 March) and the NZ Fringe Fest­iv­al Wel­ling­ton  (2–24 March) are all on at the same time. I love it for the excit­ing mix […]