The Cardboard Project: Composing Creative Movement – A workshop for artists of all kinds

Name: The Cardboard Project: Composing Creative Movement – A workshop for artists of all kinds
Start: 2025-11-09T00:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-11-09T03:00:00+13:00
Location: Te Atamira

Schedule

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 12:30 am to 03:00 am

UTC+13:00

Location

Te Atamira | Queenstown, OT

This workshop with visual/performance artist and writer Alys Longley is designed to cross boundaries between art forms, working with the body in space and time to develop approaches to installation, text and site specific composition.
With the simple and accessible material of cardboard, we will explore strategies for performance making that test out practices for sculpture and installation, writing and moving. Cardboard is a material that can be found in different cultures, communities and spaces, all over the world. Alys has been working with Chilean dance artist Macarena Campbell-Parra on a series of performances where international artists develop transnational practices following simple instructions to create work with cardboard. This has brought geographically dispersed artists together, and developed a series of extraordinary performances in Santiago Chile, Auckland NZ, and Stockholm, Sweden.
In this workshop we’ll explore some of these tasks, and participants will have the choice to develop their work as text, performance, sound, or choreographic composition. It’s an approach to creativity that allows us to work alongside each other, and be inspired by each other to develop different kinds of artistic expression, working with a shared focus.
Running from 10:30am-1pm, this is open to artists, dancers, writers, performance makers, and composers aged 16 and above - this workshop welcomes anyone keen to expand their creativity and explore something new.