Activation by Rosamund Philpott

To celebrate the final day of Studies for a Keepsake, performer Rosamund Philpott presents an activation in response to the exhibition with live sound by Hun Lynch. Enacting the exhibition through movement and music, this activation will attempt to bodyhack the performative histories of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore by responding to their covert and defiant acts of queerness and political action. Exploring notions of creative companionship, intimacy, gender, mischief and resistance, Philpott and Lynch will re-inhabit a private partnership through this public display.

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5pm: Doors open

5.15pm: Performance starts

5.45pm: Performance ends

6pm: Gallery closes

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Rosamund Philpott (BPASA, BDanSt (Hons)) is a dance artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, working across choreography, performance, research, and teaching. Her practice is grounded in a deep belief in dancing as the way forward - as a site for intimacy, resistance, memory, and transformation. Drawing on queer philosophies of time, phenomenology, and historiography, her work moves between contemporary dance, theatre, and interdisciplinary performance and engages with maximalist embodiment where matter and meaning exponentially unravel.

Rosamund has collaborated and performed throughout Aotearoa and internationally with Foster Group, Footnote NZ Dance, Okareka Dance Company, Nisha Madhan and Julia Croft, Tori Manley-Tapu and MOTH. Her independent choreographic works include Night Swim, Dry Spell, Left of Spring, and Bellum. Rosamund is co-director of SOFT.co alongside Jessie McCall, creating works including HEALR, Inflated Rebel, and MDF (medium density fantasy) which premiered at FOLA [AKL]. Recent projects include Foster Group’s Ghost Field and her 2025 solo work Annie, Annie, Annie. She is currently completing a creative practice PhD at the University of Auckland and is the 2026 Trans-Tasman Research Exchange resident.

Hun Lynch is a multi-disciplinary artist (Pakeha, Fiji, Samoa), working across music, film, theatre, and writing, Hun’s artistic practice is both expansive and deeply personal - bridging the urgency of being alive with the more spiritual, conceptual realms of storytelling and performance.

As a musician, Hun recently released her debut solo album Sycophant on award-winning alternative Pasifika label NOA Records. Self-recorded and produced, and mixed at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios with legend Paddy Hill, the 10-track album distils her vast creative vocabulary into a sound that is as theatrical and poetic as it is intimate. Since 2021, Hun has performed around the country, recently opening for Serebii and WOMB at sold-out venues. Her unreleased music has aired on NTS and 95bFM and has been used across theatre, dance, and screen.

As an actor, Hun starred opposite Nathalie Morris in Petrol (2022), the sophomore feature from acclaimed director Alena Lodkina. The film premiered at Locarno International Film Festival, screened at MIFF, and was included in MoMA’s New Directors / New Films Festival in New York (2023). She will next appear in the upcoming New Zealand feature film Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, directed by Thunderlips and starring Jackie van Beek, Yvette Parsons and Arlo Green – which premiered at the legendary Sundance Film Festival in January.

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