Public Performance by Orama Nigou, 29 October, 10am, Massey Cinema.

Please join us for the final day of Orama Nigou’s residency, as the inaugural NOHO French Pacific artist in residence at Te Whare Hēra, for a public performance and artist talk.

Orama’s practice has a deep connection with her Polynesian heritage. Working with feathers, stitching, and her own body, she explores the intimacy of the creative process, memory and transmission, self-building and human transformation / metamorphosis.

In this new cycle of creation, the artist looks forward to taking her crafting gestures into performance, becoming the support, the human tapa on which the feathers will be sewn.

With thanks to the French Embassy and Villa Antipode for supporting this residency, and to Wellington City Council and Massey University for the partnership that makes Te Whare Hēra possible.