Essays
Still, Like Air, I'll Rise
There is a sea change in the Ōtautahi arts scene. This city feels a lot more like home than it did when I left over a decade ago, and on every visit since. Suddenly, Christchurch feels possible.
Essays
Structures of Brick and Quiet Undertones: Considering Contemporary Christchurch
The context of this city in 2016 is irremovable from earthquake recovery, but the tone of that context has moved from shock and mourning to exploring the potential of the rebuild as well as frustration with that process.
Essays
weaponised abjection & queer identity / visibility / experience
If being abject is distant, is other, is not something normative society wishes to face, then weaponising that abjection, emphasising it and making it impossible to ignore, is a radical act.
Art & Art Production
w e l c o m e
My first exhibition, a group show at Artspace Aotearoa alongside DANCE Art Club, John Vea, Single Brown Female, and more.
Essays
Para-: A Contemporary Working of Parasexuality
Contemporary workings of parasexuality describe specific kinds of relationships between majority groups and marginalised groups or people; relationships where structural power imbalances are at work.
Essays
Interview with Alex Metcalf-Wilson on Para-
I got an email from Alex Mitcalfe Wilson about a piece he’s writing as part of Artspace’s critical texts series on W e l c o m e.. The following is my response, containing his questions. The piece is in reference to the essay Para- and the accompanying sculpture.