Still, 2 min in, of the 4 min, 23 second video with music by Frederick Bertram
A Nov 2021 walk through Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
as part of PAWA (Performance Art Week Aotearoa) 
Still of the 4 min, 23 second video with music by Frederick Bertram
View a low quality version of this on youtube. Music: excerpt from Frederick Bertram's 2020,
12 minute "Live Sound Healing" from his album, Autumn Improvisation.
Listen to this here: https://youtu.be/ZLmFcbyuBxU
A walk from the hill to the sea, down Cuba Street in the capital city of Aotearoa New Zealand,
during the covid pandemic, as part of PAWA: performanceartweekaotearoa.com.
Still of the 4 min, 23 second video with music by Frederick Bertram
Frederick Bertram's improvisational score "Live Sound Healing"
(Listen to this 12 min score here) sets the tone for a collection of odd ball looking characters taking a walk dressed in shades of purple. Most are masked. Even the capital of Aotearoa New Zealand is in grip of the pandemic and for a mid afternoon walk down central city, Cuba Street, the streets are quite empty. Shops are open but pedestrians are few.
The music is a bit trippy and so is the surreal editing. These are surreal times.
These -coloured walks- began with red as the first intervention at the
2011/12 Tahora folk festival on a sheep farm in high country Taranaki, Aotearoa | New Zealand.
Inspired by this experience we set about work on
"Blue". This was filmed in 2014 during a small festival KHAMA (Kaipara Hills Acoustic Music Assn) Autumn Equinox Gathering against the backdrop of the Kaipara hills.
The video "Being Blue" is still in production.
Come 2015 and it is time for "yellow" and this time the main character is the awa (river) during the inaugural GOmanawa in 2014 near Tauranga. Link to the video
The Yellows
Filming was made of three green walks in 2015 and 2016 in Rotorua, the Bay of Plenty, and Kumeu, and so far I have only found time (in between various other projects) to make a 1 min: "Last call for green" (
watch it on youtube). And the video
"19 gay men and the throne of God," is a deviation, the men walk in matching blue, red and black.
In the meantime,
Waiporoporo, a walk in purple from the top of Cuba Street, to the sea, happened on Nov 14th 2021, in Wellington, the capital of Aotearoa / New Zealand as part of
Performance Art Week Aotearoa (PAWA) and this 4 minute video is a surrealist interpetation of this.
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