Fueling PAWA’s long tradition of presenting cutting-edge performance art, international artist VERÓNICA PEÑA arrives in Wellington to premiere ‘ALBARKAS’, a performance art work and participatory workshop about passion, carried memories, life, erasure, and liberation.
- Performance Art Week Aotearoa
- November 26th - 30th 2024
- Wellington City, NZ
VERÓNICA PEÑA
- Performance Art Week Aotearoa
- November 26th - 30th 2024
- Wellington City, NZ
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Fueling PAWA’s long tradition of presenting cutting-edge performance art, international artist VERÓNICA PEÑA arrives in Wellington to premiere ‘ALBARKAS’, a performance art work and participatory workshop about passion, carried memories, life, erasure, and liberation.
TUE 26th
Artist Talk
With Verónica Peña
Please join PAWA for an Artist Talk with VERÓNICA PEÑA. Verónica is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and international-community advocate from Spain based in New York since 2006, and temporarily living in Australia.
WED 27th
From: Memory. To: Present.
Free Participatory Workshop
Join interdisciplinary artist Verónica Peña for an engaging hands-on workshop exploring Performance Art. Open to all, this free experience will offer you an opportunity to learn about the inners of performance art, discover tools to naturally begin practicing, and contribute to ALBARKAS by collectively building the sculptural object Verónica will use for her public performance.
SAT 30th
ALBARKAS
Public Performance
For her durational performance ALBARKAS, Verónica Peña will wander through the streets of Wellington, embraced by the fragrance of memory. Albarkas invites spectators to reflect on the deeper layers of their own lives, questioning what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what is carried forward.
Veronica Pena
Albarkas Performace Artist
Verónica is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and international-community advocate from Spain based in New York since 2006, and temporarily living in Australia. Her practice explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art, science, and technology. Motivated by a desire to challenge preconceptions and dissolve barriers to human unity, she counteracts violence and fear by generating art performances that promote empathy, inspire understanding, and challenge separation. Her work combines prolonged underwater submersion, durational performance, audience participation, and visual metamorphosis to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, public liberation, death, body-mind fluidity, and women’s empowerment.