Basque artist Jorge Oteiza began to develop what he called his “experimental purpose”, an approach to sculpture based on the notion of de-occupying matter. Space then acquires a dominant role and the viewer can adopt an active attitude toward the emptiness of the sculpture.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus - Gallery Mitsuru, Osaka
Pōtaka Nautilus as immersive interactive exhibition was presented at the newly restored and opened heritage Gallery Mitsuru in Osaka, Japan during October 2024.
Read moreBAROOM CLUB TOKYO
EMAKI-TIGER-DRAGON at Baroom Club Tokyo with Mark de Clive-Lowe, Mahina-Ina Kingi-Kaui and Daniel Belton, October 13th 2024.
Read moreWAI-MIZU Workshop/Wānanga
Last month in Tokyo on October 11th, Good Company Arts in partnership with Iina Naoto and Mizuhito Kuroda, hosted a one day workshop that brought together a unique group of renowned artists from Japan and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read moreDRAGON + TIGER live - Japan Festival 2024
Good Company Arts presented an AV liveset of our TIGER (Silver Lotus) and DRAGON with internationally renowned musician/composer Mark de Clive-Lowe and taonga pūoro master Mahina-Ina Kingi-Kaui (Kāti Irakehu, Ngāi Tuahuriri Kāti Huirapa, Te Whanau Pokai. Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Porou, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) for Japan Festival Wellington.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus – a spiralling encounter with our place in the universe
Erin Harrington reviews Pōtaka Nautilus, presented by Good Company Arts, at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, 27 June 2024.
Read morePEPE 2024 Update
Leading Taonga Pūoro artists collaborate together with Good Company Arts to create a cultural time-capsule, focussing on the musicianship and beauty of Taonga Pūoro. The project is creating an archive that shares knowledge specifically of the Pūtōrino instrument. Kāi Tahu wāhine
Read moreDRAGON ドラゴン Poems
2024 is year of the Dragon - last month we made the first big strides in Tokyo towards our new cine-dance short “DRAGON”, with IDIOT SAVANT Theater Co and Mark de Clive-Lowe.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus in Spain
In October the Pōtaka Nautilus project opened as an immersive exhibition at Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, for Festival After Cage 2023. This is our livestream webcast premiere which features dance artists Taane Mete and Airu Matsuda as kaitiaki supporting the full Pōtaka Nautilus creative team, including taonga pūoro soloists Alistair Fraser and Ariana Tikao.
Read moreDRAGON Film Update
2024 is year of the Dragon - last month we made the first big strides in Tokyo towards our new cine-dance short “DRAGON”, with IDIOT SAVANT Theater Co and Mark de Clive-Lowe.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus In Progress
The Pōtaka_Nautilus project is a multi-modal dance and sound experience designed for international presentations in Prague, Pamplona, and Tel Aviv.
Read more2022 RECAP
Good Company Arts delivered four international world premieres. We recreated legacy works as full dome, virtual gallery, VR and webcasts for major festivals in Canada and Colombia.
Read moreAstrolabe - Whakaterenga @XXI International Image Festival (Festival Internacional de la Imagen) 2022
Our Astrolabe - Whakaterenga project was honoured to be featured in the XXI International Festival of the Image (Festival Interncacional de la Imagen) during October 2022.
Read moreAstrolabe - Whakaterenga @World Stage Design 2022
Good Company Arts is delighted to share our performance livestream of Astrolabe - Whakaterenga at World Stage Design 2022
Read moreRegeneration’s Slow Wail: On ‘Ad Parnassum/Purapurawhetū’
Vibration is the way time moves, landscapes shift, and stars reemerge out of the black to haunt us. Under the spike of each sharp new birth murmur prolonged rhythms—a flutter, a tremble, a sigh.
Read moreTAL/VOYAGER
The TAL/Voyager project represents a special union between South Korea and New Zealand companies. Creative New Zealand toi Aotearoa support has enabled this international collaboration.
Read morePEPE update (Nguru)
"Nguru" is the first journey work in a new digital film series (PEPE) to honour and celebrate Taonga Pūoro Musicians and their traditional instruments, and to connect these healing voices to dance and new technologies for contemporary storytelling.
Read moreTIGER film update
This February our brand new dance short TIGER, will open with the Lunar New Year Festival in Te Whanganui-a-Tara to celebrate the year of the Tiger 2022.
Read moreLaniakea VR
Inspired by the cosmic forces of expansion and contraction at work in the universe, we entered into a digital/analogue process that utilises motion graphics, generative image processing, filmed dance, sound electronics, live musicianship and VR.
Read moreThe Woman Remembers
The Woman Remembers is projection mapped outdoor work about belonging and loss. The project has evolved from a long-term collaboration between independent theatre companies in Queensland, New Zealand and Japan. For this iteration, Belloo Creative collaborated with Good Company Arts (New Zealand) and Phluxus2 Dance Collective (Brisbane)
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