Josiah Morgan reflects on the experience of performing in his own 6-hour durational work ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ alongside Bea Gladding and Shaun McTague.

Dan Goodwin responds to Krisnha Istha’s work ‘First Trimester’ with a long-form questionnaire poem. In ‘First Trimester’ audiences observed Krishna in a series of one-on-one interviews searching for the ‘perfect sperm donor’.

I’ve been thinking a lot about change and belonging recently. In my creative practice I find myself coming back again and again to places, spaces, and past selves which I no longer know. At night I find myself walking through houses I haven’t lived in in years, moving through strange quake dreams, and talking to people I haven’t seen in half a decade or more. Perhaps it’s something to do with being almost 25 and finally having finished my Master’s degree. Perhaps it’s the death of my grandfather. Or perhaps it’s just the approach of another earthquake anniversary. Whatever the reason, Josiah Morgan’s (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) latest collection i’m still growing is exactly the sort of book I’ve been needing to read.

Embarrassment. I had been at the University every day for four years and I hadn’t ever dropped in at the Adam Art Gallery. Quite quickly you realise this is not a place to toy with – there’s a seeming stability to the all-black interiors. The place oozes…what’s the word? Cojones. I always think buildings where you…