Nirvana Haldar and Whiro Walker in residence
The third gathering of the Parallax: programme is a eight week residency with artists Nirvana Haldar and Whiro Walker. Nirvana and Whiro will share the space from July until late September.
Nirvana and Whiro share an enthusiasm for facilitating engagements with collaborators as part of their creative process. Art making in this residency functions as a tool for exchange. Through learning and making together, the artists will form co-presences in the Kit space and share desires, create relationships and develop their practices together. The residency aims to experiment with non-rivalry sharing and questioning. It pays attention to learning from each other in a way that is honest, adventurous, open-ended and generative. The artists will host public events towards the end of their residency.
Biographies
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Nirvana Haldar is a writer and visual artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their inquiry moves between the personal, the political, and the social. Haldar recently exhibited Remembering the Future (Exercise 1) (2024) at Grace Aotearoa and ঘেরর িভতের ঘর (home inside a home) (2023), at Paper Anniversary.
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Whiro Walker is of Ngāti Kahungunu Ki Wairoa, Pākeha and was born in Pōneke. Walker is an artist currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau working with textile, exploring whakapapa and play. They studied fine arts at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and work at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. Recent exhibitions include PUPURITIA: Storytelling and Contemporary Textiles (2025) at Objectspace; Their Eyes Are Watching You (2024), with Pounamu Rurawhe at Te Tuhi; Stitching breath over whenua, (behind nans whare) (2024) at Play_station.