Media/Digital

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Aotea Centre Digital Art Live

Uncover feathered inhabitants together in Jenna Gavin and Matthew Martin’s interactive artwork, opening on White Night with a special appearance from dance group Bodyphonics. Birds of a Shadow is a playful installation inviting family, friends and strangers to work together to discover beautifully crafted bird images on the screen.

Bath St Gallery

A meditation on the art practice of Kazu Nakagawa in a short film about him directed by Bridget Quick.

Timeout Festival Garden

Contemplate the celestial ceiling to digital birdsong surrounded by lei-wrapped, Polynised trees in Niki Hastings-McFall’s open-air Fale Ula.  

Papakura Art Gallery in the CBD

Reposition Freyburg Square as Papakura Art Gallery is brought into the CBD for White Night and unveils a trans-Tasman, interdisciplinary Shared Endeavour. The event – featuring light, sculpture, installation and genteel hospitality – launches the collaboration between Auckland-based Martin Awa Clarke Langdon (Tainui, Ngai Tahu) and Sydney-based Jonathan Jones (Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi).

ST PAUL St Gallery

Check out the exhibition of six contemporary Japanese artists’ work channeling the energies of mega-city and environment, and an outdoor screening of moving image works presented in association with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. 

Remuera Village

Meet the next generation of creators and innovators as Media Design School students and graduates present projects traversing a diverse array of digital disciplines. 

AUT

Enter the phonetic matrix of New Zealand’s birdlife under the dense typographic canopy of Gerbrand Van Melle’s audience-responsive PUA. Demonstrating the relation between humans and birds, names appear and disappear, responding to the audience presence.

Central City Library

Ogle at Alternative Resources inside and outside the Library by artists from the Elam School of Fine Arts.

Cross St Arcade

Act up in Cross Street Arcade, K’Rd, with Unitec students and staff, who present a little theatre of dreams through projected animations and live art making.

Whitespace

Get immersed in Niki Hastings McFall’s new show incorporating Pacific amulets and sound, coinciding with her installation in the Festival Garden, *Fale Ula*[sitetree_link,id=167]. The artist will be in attendance to meet visitors and discuss her work.

Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University

Take the weather with you to NZPQ15: Āhua o te Rangi, an exhibition by New Zealand’s most innovative performance and spatial practice artists, that addresses weather as a transformative system in this era of climate change. 

Timeout Festival Garden

Hashtag your heart out with the hypnotic digital organism #entity255 opening on the Festival screen, spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa, breathe in the Festival’s feast and funk it up with Hopetoun Brown, Nathan Haines  and HAPTIC .

Take a walk of the arts, design and science with inspiring interactive and multi-sensory experiences throughout the Remuera precinct

The Vic Devonport

It’s a white-out as The Vic unveils its new-look Vic Lounge Bar – freshly painted guess-what-colour and with White Night-themed food and drinks, video and sound works on the menu.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Hashtag your heart out with the hypnotic digital organism #entity255 opening on the Festival screen.

Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Look and listen as Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision presents a live music and cinema event and an exhibition by Dieneke Jansen.

Remuera Village

Experience a childhood imagination come to life as your hand is transformed into a virtual aircraft in this playful and engaging interactive installation by creative engineer Jacques Foottit.

Remuera Village

Explore perception – and deception – in this multi-platform experimental digital production presented by Diocesan School for Girls Digital Design students using space, light and image.

Auckland Art Gallery

Music on film comes via a one-off screening of Margaret Gordon’s Into The Void, a documentary on the band of the same name and formed by four art school students - Jason Greig, Paul Sutherland, Ronnie van Hout and Mark Whyte- as something to do in Christchurch on a Saturday night on the 1980s. The film was voted best documentary for 2014 by The Press. 

The Vic Devonport

Film screening of Finding Vivian Maier.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Q Loft

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

Lopdell House

Grab your cushion and kick back under the stars on Lopdell’s rooftop terrace for a screening of three short films: Layers in Time, First Breath and Paradise. Koha admission.

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.