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_{Image:  without dirtying the water (speaking with Te Riu o Te Aika Kawa) (still), 2025, single channel 4K video, stereo sound. 21 minutes 53 seconds.  Courtesy of the artist}

Te Whanganui-a-Tara based composer, musician and artist Noel Meek works across video, sculpture, and live performance, using musical improvisation and found texts as speculative tools for communicating with the more-than-human. This exhibition explores the concept of unworlding, the qualities inherent in the ends of worlds, through investigating two landscapes on opposite coasts of Te Waipounamu.

Each landscape represents a site of extraordinary transformation, through natural cycles of erosion and human intervention. Meek's works seek out a dialogue with these life cycles in order to both elucidate a space where one world gives way to another and probe questions about our relationship with the more-than-human in these cycles.

Noel Meek will perform live at the opening event.

_{Image: Nukunuku Whakairo — Carving with the Camera (installation view) 2025. Zena Elliott and Tia Barrett. Single-channel video. 4 minutes 28 seconds.  Courtesy of the artists}

Zena Elliott explores the diversity of pre-colonial kaiwhakairo practices and how these discourses might empower contemporary takatāpui and wāhine kaiwhao (non-binary et al. woman carvers) to redefine gender roles within contemporary whakairo ecosystems.

Elliott’s practice embraces the complexity and fluidity of gender, identity, and Indigenous relational ecosystems, asserting that all things are interconnected within the multi-layered dimensional worlds of Māori. By expressing multiple gender identity perspectives, both human and non-human, Elliott articulates the unfixed nature of gender through her concept of Indigi-[ia] (It/they/them/she/him).