Adam Ben-Dror and Xin Cheng, 'Stories from Te Auaunga Oakley Creek', 2024 (still).
Photo Credit
Permission Slip leans into embodied curiosity, playing together, and learning-with.
The exhibition features a video portrait of a stream and its friends by Adam Ben-Dror and Xin Cheng, a double-sided painting-membrane-picnic blanket by Raewyn Martyn, and squishy oversized play items by Aya Yamashita Francis.
In these works, research is firmly located in the world and involves a tangle of collaborators in active exchange. Artists, neighbours, rocks, bacteria, children, insects, waste, pathways, and spiderwebs are all valued contributors. What can we learn together? Where does it happen? How can we make it pleasurable?
A series of lunchtime events accompanies Permission Slip. The events take inspiration from primary school field trips and activities, allocating time for play, curiosity, and short excursions beyond the walls of the gallery. Please see the event listings for details.
Permission Slip is presented as part of Jordan Davey-Emms’ curatorial internship, soft shell, which occupies Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space until March 2025.
Opening Hours
- Thursday 24 October–Saturday 9 November
- Open 10am-5:30pm on Thursdays and Fridays; 10am-2pm on Saturdays
- Thursday 24 Oct, Friday 25 Oct, Saturday 26 Oct
- Thursday 31 Oct, closed Friday 1 Nov, Saturday 2 Nov
- Thursday 7 Nov, Friday 8 Nov, Saturday 9 Nov
- Please note: soft shell will be shut briefly on Saturdays 11am-12pm for off-site Picnic Reading events
Te Tuhi (Soft Shell)
- Parnell Project Space
- Parnell Station
- 23 Cheshire Street, Parnell
- Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Permission Slip leans into embodied curiosity, playing together, and learning-with.
The exhibition features a video portrait of a stream and its friends by Adam Ben-Dror and Xin Cheng, a double-sided painting-membrane-picnic blanket by Raewyn Martyn, and squishy oversized play items by Aya Yamashita Francis.
In these works, research is firmly located in the world and involves a tangle of collaborators in active exchange. Artists, neighbours, rocks, bacteria, children, insects, waste, pathways, and spiderwebs are all valued contributors. What can we learn together? Where does it happen? How can we make it pleasurable?
A series of lunchtime events accompanies Permission Slip. The events take inspiration from primary school field trips and activities, allocating time for play, curiosity, and short excursions beyond the walls of the gallery. Please see the event listings for details.
Permission Slip is presented as part of Jordan Davey-Emms’ curatorial internship, soft shell, which occupies Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space until March 2025.
