Green

"Green" is a performance/happening in production as at least one video combining three 'green' walks, one in Rotorua in November 2015, one during the Auckland folk festival in Feb 2016, one during the GOmanawa festival in Dec 2016.

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.
The hills were sooo green. So we rattled up red things from those at the festival and then found walkers for a transit of red across the valley. Before we knew it, we had horseridders and a team of 30 walkers! And then there was Mark Laurent's beautiful melody.
The premiere for the video Transit in a green landscape was at the Auckland arts festival, Splore in 2012.

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)

The longer "Walk in green" with a plot is still in production.

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 will happen on Nov 14th 2021 downtown in Wellington, the capital of Aotearoa / New Zealand as part of Performance Art Week Aotearoa (PAWA).