locating the little heartbeats is a multi-media exhibition by artist Julie Nagam. Julie Nagam is a scholar, a curator and an artist. In her art, Nagam reads the land as a valuable archive of memory and as a witness. Read more…

Artists Bryan Phillips and Fayen d’Evie present a live quadraphonic-sound performance.

Joel Spring (Wiradjuri) and Elisapeta Heta (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Hāmoa, Waikato-Tanui) present on their practices and activism in both art and architecture.

Eating Each Other follows a series of performative dinners and is Ève Chabanon’s second solo exhibition in Wellington. The exhibition introduces her current research into Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial history, the Arts and Crafts movement and intellectual property rights through handmade ceramic works and collaborative elements.

Te Whare Hēra Eavesdropping Residency is a partnership with City Gallery Wellington, supported by Creative Victoria, Australia.

Eavesdropping used to be a crime, but now it’s everywhere. Eavesdropping explores the politics of listening in our post-Snowden moment. But it isn’t just about big data, surveillance, and security—it’s also about our personal responsibilities listening back to power, as earwitnesses.

This exhibition follows a series of performative dinners and is the first of Chabanon’s two solo exhibitions in Wellington. The first part of Eating Each Other introduces her residency project through handmade ceramics and collaborative elements, framed by the futuristic architecture of Ian Athfield.

Tupi and not Tupi invited guests to enter a performative web of exchanges set at a dinner table, focusing on the notion of ‘cultural anthropophagy’.

From Anti Social Social Club to The Surplus is a public lecture by our new artist in residence, Ève Chabanon.

London-based, French artist Ève Chabanon creates situations that grow from engagement with institutional structures. Through performance, writing and objects, Chabanon initiates projects that often involve local communities and develop out of her engagement with grassroots collectives or groups.

Screening of Latham Zearfoss’s video series, followed by a discussion with Mark Williams, Director of Circuit Aotearoa

For the last decade, Chicago-based artist and organizer Latham Zearfoss has built a multifaceted body of work that unites themes of love, community, family, political legacy, personal agency and collective action.

A collaboration between Te Whare Hēra and Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, this workshop follows Whiteness: a blinding view, a public talk on white power and privilege. The workshop, facilitated by our current artist in residence Latham Zearfoss, is intended to provide an exploratory space for Pākehā/white artists to engage with racial justice effectively and ethically.

a known unknown is an experimental lecture with sounds and visuals that seeks to creatively interpret and contextualise Zearfoss’s art practice. Over the past decade, Zearfoss has produced a robust and diverse body of work within the realms of cinema, sound art, social practice and sculpture.

ships in the night is an allegorical consideration of how bodies and objects are increasingly choreographed and stymied within our crumbling colonial world order. New sculptural works by American artist Latham Zearfoss formally and conceptually align through the reverent use of low-grade packing material - brown paper, cardboard and tape.