Please join us Thursday 28 August 5:30pm, for a special in-gallery performance piece produced by one of New Zealand’s most renowned composers, Eve de Castro-Robinson. Together with performers Kristian Larsen and Weichu Huang, they will respond with sound and movement to Catherine Griffiths | Walk With Me.

Over de Castro-Robinson’s long career she has produced genre-defying compositions spanning orchestral, vocal, chamber, and theatrical, for performances in Aotearoa and internationally. She draws inspiration from an array of sources including hymns, sonic art, free jazz, poetry, punk, cinema, and abstract painting. A trained graphic designer, de Castro is uniquely placed to respond to not only Griffiths’ art practice, but to interpret her works as an expansive graphic score.

Eve de Castro-Robinson retired as Associate Professor in Composition from the University of Auckland in 2020, after 25 years, and works as a freelance composer, music consultant, interviewer, mentor and writer.

Kristian Larsen is a Tamaki Makaurau based multi-disciplinary artist:  dancer / choreographer / musician / composer / writer / researcher / teacher / improviser. Working at the edges of contemporary dance and experimental music in live performance, Larsen’s performances describe relationships between the somatic and the acoustic through creative misuses of dance techniques and audio technologies. Larsen is a graduate of three of New Zealand's key dance institutions - UNITEC - PAS, The New Zealand School of Dance, and has a Masters and a Doctoral Degree in dance from the University of Auckland.

Weichu Huang (they/she) is a Chinese artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating in 2021 with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance), they have been working primarily in film and live performance. Weichu loves to collaborate and create work that exists at the junction of dance and broader artistic disciplines.