The Kit programme is led by the Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua Curatorial Intern and is located on the lower ground floor of Artspace Aotearoa.
Parallax: reiterating forms of gathering is the programme by the 2025 curatorial intern Jingcheng Zhao.
Parallax refers to the shift in perspective when viewing the same object from different positions. As a curatorial method, Parallax: keeps thought and practice in motion.
The programme looks at art-making as a whole process, cultivated through shared time and experience. It aims to activate the Kit through various forms of gathering, openly responding to the different rhythms, durations, urgencies and desires of creative exchanges.
The space hosts, moves, circulates, responds and accumulates. Through staging repetitive, temporal, flexible, reproductive, slow, and rapid gatherings, art begins in the history of all communication that went to its making.
Hosting space is hosting time. Shared presence is the fact. Gather and gather again. Parallax: reiterates the need and intention to think in terms of what is possible.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi grounds and guides these gatherings.
Toitū Te Tiriti
The curatorial internship is supported by Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa 2025–2027.
Biography
Jingcheng Zhao is tangata tiriti. She loves to write, dive into different facets of exhibition-making and work with passionate artists: what are they doing, what are they imagining, what are their desires and hopes? Her recent roles include Window Gallery curator for 2024, an archivist at Satellites, Audience Engagement and Administrative Assistant at Te Tuhi and has experience across film and theatre.
Location
The Kit is located on the lower ground floor of Artspace Aotearoa, accessible through the carpark at 8 East Street.