Stephen Bain & Gabriel White present a new series of performance texts amplifying Everyday Situations through dialogues and word games. Standing Sitting Kneeling Lying invites the public to immerse themselves in and through the language of memory.

From billboard sized printed notices, to intimate memories collected on pages, the exhibition transforms performed dialogues into ink on the page, urging the text to fade and spoken words to replace sound.

Exhibition opens: Thursday 22 May, 5.30pm
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Friday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 24 June

Live performance: Thursday 22 May, 5.30pm
Mark with us the publication of Dream Houses, a short collection of remembered spaces, also performed excerpts from Standing Sitting Kneeling Lying.

Live performance: Saturday 24 May, 4pm
Full performance of three texts from the exhibition, 4pm start time, with special guest Antonia Barnett-McIntosh.

Gabriel White & Stephen Bain have been performing together as Null Island since 2023, mixing composed and improvised text, video and live performance, exploring the illusion of language to reveal and conceal meaning.

Gabriel is a filmmaker and musician from Auckland, Aotearoa. He has produced albums with Spacesuit and Floral Clocks, published photography, poetry and essays in several publications in NZ. His feature film Oracle Drive was screened in the Auckland International Film Festival. Recent live performances include Strange Ancestors (Q), Countdown Mountain (Pah Homestead), and Ten Bass Drums with Chris O’Conner (Audio Foundation).

Performance maker and writer Stephen Bain collaborates with a broad variety of artists to explore themes of urban confusion and tactical fiction. He has been creating original performances since the early 1990s, more recently engaged in public-space interventions nationally and internationally, working with theatricality, sound, film and public participation.
http://stephenbain.co.nz