Prague Quadrennial Design Installation
New Zealand’s exhibit ‘Performing Space in Oceania’ at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, 2011.
The installation was involved in New Zealand’s inaugural exhibit at the Architecture Section of the Prague Quadrennial, PERFORMING SPACE IN OCEANIA, which brought indigenous innovation to the world stage through an exhibit design that embodied the performative qualities of Te Whare Tapere, an ancient pre-European Polynesian theatre architecture. The installation exemplified performance architecture as an interactive and time-based field, and was influenced by customary Pacific architecture that has porous or indeterminate spatial boundaries and is transient or mobile. This inter-disciplinary national project presented the work of artists, performance designers and architects working in performance or performance design.
The exhibition table is designed by Wellington architect and curator Amanda Yates.