Emily Simek is an artist and gardener who provides technical support for WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET, an online space for peer-led publishing of draft, in-progress or adjacent creative work. The space approaches publishing and website maintenance through the lens of a community garden.

In this session we will experiment with how to web working bee through reading and co-writing within a shared web application. WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET’s working documents are on the table to compost, prune, fertilise, turn-in, and otherwise add tasting notes to. If convenient, please bring along a laptop.

Monday 14 April, 6pm – Rebecca Jensen

This session will look at the role of the referee in professional wrestling (WWE style). Rebecca will propose a durational physical score which we will do together. Through movement, conversation and reading,  we will explore ideas of inaction, extended time, calling the shots when the script is already written, Kayfabe and grandiloquence of gesture.

This is part of a larger project, Embryonic Punch, working with professional wrestlers and dancers in Aotearoa.

Monday 21 April, 6pm – Easter Break

No session.

Monday 28 April, 6pm – Oliver Savariego

In this session, Oliver will share his practice ‘Playtime’; a state-based improvisational mode that draws upon childhood memory, paediatric psychology and early-learning principles.

We will do away with learned dance techniques and aesthetics, and strip away judgement. Oliver will facilitate guided improvisation, reflective discussions and task-based choreographic applications, all aiming to unlock wonder, joy and new movement potentials.

Monday 5 May, 6pm – Erin O’Rourke

Can we find hope in our rage? In this session, Erin will share material from her new project that explores rage as a force for change, healing, and liberation.

Erin is exploring gendered, particularly feminine anger as an inherited, ancestral response to generations of oppression. Yet, also as something fetishized, misrepresented in pop culture, and dismissed as hostility or cattiness.

Monday 12 May, 6pm – Charlie Lee

This session is about waste. Enchanted trash, beautiful rubbish, cheeky objects… Together we will try and bring things to life with promiscuous narrations, movement, music, spatiality and lighting. Bring along any items you’d like to dump.

Join artist and costume designer, Charlie Lee,  in questioning what performance looks like in the absence of human agents. Perhaps if we direct our attention to the more than human, we can break down what “human” even means. w3 r all tra$$$hhhh!! th1s w0rkshop will be ##rubb1sh////

Monday 19 May, 6pm – Zack Lewin

The multimodal self requires a transmodal exploritative methodology.

In this session, Zack Lewin (takatāpui multi-disciplinary artist) will share his transmedial meta-autobiographical process. Specifically, with material from his current project-in-development, Mate Manawa- a series of theee works of varied mediums.

Together, we will ponder the limits, ethics and experientiality of self-reflexive autobiographical creative processes across disciplines. What is the effect of a meta-autobiographical process on the body? On the relationship of the body to the world around it? On the relationship of the body with itself? With its occupier?

Monday 26 May, 6pm – Sofie McClure and Cat Dowden

If a camera were strapped to your knee, would it become a fluid sensory apparatus extending your perception or an unwelcome growth, stifling movement and sparking unwelcome self-consciousness?

In this session we will investigate the camera as a tool for ‘holding’ as opposed to ‘capture’, exploring what this opens for story-telling, choreography and performance. Come experiment with Sofie McClure and Cat Dowden’s ‘camera carriers’ – wearable objects in which cameras are affixed to different parts of the body, allowing for a filming method that is directed by intuition, movement and tactility.

Monday 2 June, 6pm – Meredith Connie & Jane Refshauge

Meredith and Jane will share their knowledge in somatic practices, and guide us through embodied explorations of our hips and pelvis. Through Ideo-kinetic, Alexander Technique and Eurythmic practices, we’ll get to know our hips – an essential part of creating a stable yet flexible, efficient and easeful movement practice. Underlying this focus, is a search for methods to explore specific regions of the body, whilst acknowledging their indivisibility as a psycho-physical-spiritual unity, moving in process.

**To facilitate accessibility of people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, non-medical electronic devices will need to be turned off during this session.

Monday 9 June, 6pm – Aisyah Kirana Fardiansyah

Aisyah is a visual and performance artist interested in spontaneity and absurdity as tools for disrupting and reimagining the ordinary. In this session, we will form embodied relationships with buckets, as symbolic and performative objects: something you can wear, carry, or transform. Using buckets as both object and metaphor, we will collectively investigate how everyday items can be activated as tools for movement, dialogue, and meaning-making. We’ll unpack how simple objects can become a vessel for radical play and collective imagination. Buckets provided, or BYO!

Monday 16 June, 6pm – Active Research (Marte Labonia and Eko Fitte)

This session will unpack a (deceptively) simple, yet generative question: What is an object? Rather than approaching this inquiry through abstract or theoretic means, we’ll open the question through physical experimentation — using materials, the body, and spatial composition as tools for inquiry. We’ll think with various frameworks including Phenomenology, Object-Oriented Ontology and Philosophy of Perception… How do objects appear through perception and interaction? How do they shift when brought into contact with other things or bodies? What is it like to be that object?