What are Intuitive Technologies? With Jen Alexandra

Drawing on Jen Alexandra's practice-led inquiry into the embodied, often unspoken methods artists use to make work, this workshop explores what Jen calls intuitive technologies: the gestures, rituals, and relational ways of knowing artists accumulate but rarely name. It looks specifically at scent as re-presencing. Through open-ended making activities, participants are invited to respond to scent as a catalyst for making. Underpinning the workshop is a conviction that creative making is a quietly radical act against productivity-driven capitalism.
As space is limited please book your place through the ticket link above.
About the Artist
Jen Alexandra’s practice combines sculpture, installation and performance to explore the artists role as querent, and the relationships between human and non-human. She proposes that art can connect with other realms of experience, interpret visions, or serve as a mode of knowledge itself.
Objects, floating ontologically as artefacts and channels for intention, act as transitional objects between places. For Jen, folklore, nature-based worship and seasonal lore are ways to understand notions of spirit through studio-focused intuitive technologies approaching the unseen and spiritual as both a platform and tool for expanding understanding of creative practice and acts of devotion.
More information about the exhibition:
https://coca.org.nz/exhibitions/scented-translations/
'Scented Translations' is on in our Ō Papa Gallery from 3 October to 9 November 2026.