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Container Series

This signature programme has defined The Performance Arcade from the very beginning. Shipping containers host individual artworks, forming our signature arcade of performance spaces. Open daily, they become stages, galleries, and workshops, inviting audiences into intimate, accessible encounters with live arts. 

A person jumping across a large map on the ground

Mapping the Memory

Katarina Balunova

Ocean horizon showing the meeting of water and sky

The Sky is Performing

Bikka Ora & Alexa Wilson

Thu 26, 3pm

Fri 27, 12pm

Sat 28–Sun 1, 10am

Instruments made from wooden frames and plastic bottles for PET Sounds by Daniel Beban

PET Sounds — studies
for plastic bottles

Daniel Beban

Thu 26–Sun 1, 6:30pm

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Black Salt, Black Stone

Studio Kiin

Harmonic Hegemony by Zane Binglethorne

HARMONIC HEGEMONY

Zane Binglethorne

Performance artist Alan Schacher standing in a container for his work Containments, Contained

Containments, Contained

Alan Schacher

A dancer entwined in fabric, moving to break free

Not Forever, Just For Now

HELENA MAY

Time-lapse of a lone figure walking from the sand into the waves

Washed Up

Magenta Steel

Vintage telephone hanging on a wall

Red Phone

Boca del Lupo

Two of the sculptural objects from Elastic Proximity, with a rotating loudspeaker and dynamic lighting responding to audience movement

Elastic Proximity

Jesse Austin-Stewart, Sabrina Lawson, Stuart Foster & Jon He

Sat 28–Sun 1, 2pm,
4pm, 6pm & 8pm

A visitor of The Performance Arcade browsing books at The Pop-Up Bookstore

The Pop-Up Bookstore

Book Haven & Rebel Press

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Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2011–2025

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