Container Series
The Sky is Performing
Bikka Ora & Alexa Wilson
About the work
The Sky is Performing is a collaborative performance and installation by Bikka Ora and Alexa Wilson that positions the sky as central performer. Situated on Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s waterfront, the project invites audiences to recline inside a darkened container while a live sky-feed is projected above them.
The sky’s shifting clouds, light, weather, and birds become the active subject, sometimes encountered alone, sometimes alongside the artists on a raft just offshore. The work explores proximity, intimacy, and distance, offering moments of playful observation and collective immersion.
By centering the sky as performer, the project challenges anthropocentric and colonial logics that privilege humans, emphasizing kinship and co-presence with more-than-human forces. This poetic, relational space combines visual performance, live presence, and mediated technologies to invite reflection, wonder, and engagement with the unexpected vitality of the natural world.
About the artist
Bikka Ora & Alexa Wilson
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Bikka Ora is an artist working across live and video performance, sculpture, sound, and site-based interventions. Her practice is rooted in relational and ecological frameworks, exploring kinship with land, water, and non-human beings. She uses play and curiosity to unsettle colonial narratives and activate histories within transformed environments.
Alexa Wilson is a performance and dance artist, filmmaker, and writer with over two decades of experience in experimental, politically engaged, and relational work. Her practice spans live performance, video, text, and curatorial projects, often examining intimacy, vulnerability, power, and political trauma in public and mediated spaces.
Together, Ora and Wilson combine grounded ecological practice with experimental, interdisciplinary performance to create immersive experiences that foreground the sky and the more-than-human world as active participants.