Footnote return to Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua to present a very special Watch This Space gallery performance.

Cecilia Wilcox in 2023 Watch This Space at Pātaka (exhibition: naadohbii: to draw water), photo by Brynne Tasker-Poland.

Come join the dancers as they explore and react to Pātaka's winter season exhibition, Papare Eighty.One by Anton Forde.

“81 carved, wooden pou appear as sentinels in the gallery. Each pou – distinguished from each other by only the slightest difference in head shape, inclination, and hand-carved Pounamu taonga – are placed in a kao kao (chevron)-inspired formation. The specific motifs, carved forms and numerology in Papare Eighty.one are drawn from a connection to taiao and natural systems that have sustained humanity.Configuring the pou as guards, Forde places natural environments under their protection.  As individuals – both visitor and pou – gather together, Papare Eighty.one enacts a call to kotahitanga; to collective action that safeguards the future of our natural world for generations to come.”- Pātaka Gallery

Anton Forde, Te Kotahitanga o Whakamaru The Unity of Protection, 2022, detail installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Peter Rees

We are thankful to the team at Pātaka for facilitating this meeting of artforms, and for Anton Forde for being so generous with his time in working with the dancers in person to gain a deeper understanding of the kaupapa behind his mahi toi.

Saturday 3 August

11am - 11:30am

Pātaka Art + Museum Porirua

FREE ENTRY