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NZPQ'15: Åhua o te Rangi

The New Zealand National Exhibition responds to the Quadrennial’s call to create a performative environment that explores scenography as a relational and shared space. Åhua o te Rangi explores the weather theme; addressing concepts of transience, disturbance, relationality, assemblage whilst influenced by the social change, cultural diversity and eco-political ethics present in our country and its Oceanic/Pacific region.

Influenced by the Maori, and Pacific marae; Åhua o te Rangi is a space of interaction, negotiation and display. Åhua o te Rangi addresses the ‘making’ of weather which is understood in the era of anthropogenic climate change as a highly politicized human artifact. Weather becomes the performative agent that enacts transforming systems. The installation operates as a performative architecture piece, an audio-visual media-site, stage for live performance and a dialogic space of exchange. Formed out of digitally fabricated mobile elements, the comprehensive design performs weather as a site of sensory exchange, spatial change and shared experience. Inter-disciplinary performance practices and processes are evidenced through the cohesive adjoining of performing arts, design, moving-image, performance, lighting, sound, costume and new media.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Dorita Hannah

* 1961, Rotorua, New Zealand
Specialization: architect, teacher, set designer, costume designer, scenographer, Performance Designer and Co-Director Curator, Set and Costume Designer, Exhibition and Installation Artist.
Education: BArch (hons), LTCL (drama), MA & PhD (Performance Studies)
Collaboration with theatres: Designed Auckland's two Watershed Theatres in the 1990s and has co-designed a number of New Zealand performing  arts venues. Worked on a season of new works for  bicultural Theatre company, Te Roopu Whakaari. Created  new work commissioned by the Duncan Dance Centre in  Athens and STRUT Dance Company in Perth. Formed  MAP::Music_Architecture_Performance with choreographer,  Carol Brown, and composer, Russell Scoones.
Teaching activities: Hannah has been teaching in architecture and design since  1993. She established the first Performance Design degree,  which was integrated into Spatial Design degree Massey  University (NZ). Hannah is Research Professor of  Interdisciplinary Architecture,Art & Design at the University  of Tasmania (Australia). In 2013-2014 she reworked the  Scenography curriculum at Aalto University (Finland) where  she is currently Adjunct Professor of Stage & Space,  supervising PhDs and workshopping doctoral artistic  research.
Participation in other important exhibitions: DH has had work selected for WSD (World Stage Design) in 2005 and 2009. The Heart of PQ'03 was exhibited as DisPlay: re-Membering a Performance Landscape in Wellington City Gallery during Wellington's 2004 International Arts Festival
Continuing collaboration with directors: Designed and co-directed premieres for the NZ Arts Festival and major exhibitions for PQ’03 and PQ’11. Since 2003, collaborates with choreographer, Carol Brown, as co-director and designer on dance-architecture events.
Awards: WSD 2013: Gold Award in Costume Design  WSD 2013: Silver Award in Costume Design  DINZ 1999 and 2007: Gold Awards for Production Design.  NZIA: National Award (Research)  Bliznakov Prize for International Archive of Women in  Architecture (2003: commendation)
Additional information: Dorita Hannah has published widely on the intersection between art, architecture and theatre. She co-edited the first anthology on Performance Design (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008) and a themed edition of JAE on Performance/Architecture (Journal of Architectural Education). She is on the Board of Directors for Performance Studies International and is Vice-Chair of OISTAT's History & Theory Commission. She is also guest editor for the Czech Architecture Journal, ERA 21 for a themed issue on Performing Architectures and Contemporary Scenographies Dorita Hannah and Carol Brown have been invited to present their performance design practice as research as keynote speakers at international conferences and in publications such as Playing with Theory (Palgrave, 2011). Text to the PQ15 Catalogue: Investigating the intersection between performance & space, Hannah’s creative work has been selected to represent NZ at PQ since 1999. Focusing on ‘event-space’, her installations, exhibitions & events explore spatial performativity.

Exhibiting works

• : (FLOOD: Tongues of Stone), 0 ;
  Comments: A site-responsive, dance-architecture event threading through Prague: exhibiting MAP’s process for Auckland-based projects 1,000 Lovers (March 2013) and Tuna Mau (November 2013). Engaging with weather as emergent, contingent and processual, it enacts a fluid narrative by interweaving stories of Aotearoa/NZ with local histories and mythologies.
• Meggan Rollandi

* 1985, South Africa
Specialization: director, set designer, costume designer, scenographer, visual artist
Education: Masters in Design - Massey University 2010  Bachelor of Performance Design - Massey University/Te Kura Toi Whakaari  o Aotearoa
Teaching activities: Senior Tutor Massey University (part-time) 2009-present. 100,200,300 level  studio and theory papers, paper co-ordinator 100 level
Continuing collaboration with directors: Uther Dean, Leo Gene Peters, Sacha Copland
Additional information: She is an artist and award-winning performance designer working across live art, theatre and dance.

Exhibiting works

• Meg Rollandi: (Rinse and Repeat), 2014 ; Identification of exhibit: costume, video, others, Concept Installation ;
  Comments: This iterative work is part of a larger body of thematic research into the routine and temporality of self performance as it occurs in public/private and interior/exterior environments.  The performer stands under a perpetual shower sheltered by an inefficacious umbrella as make-up slowly washes off her body.
• Catherine Bagnell

* 1965
Specialization: Writer and Performance Work
Education: MFA, Elam,Auckland University
Teaching activities: Catherine is an undergraduate teacher at Massey  University, College of Creative Arts
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2014 In-Humano, international  exhibition, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de  Monterrey. Mexico. 2013 The Strange Baroque Ecology Symposium, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. 2011 Photographs in El Barocco Aotearoa; MUCA Roma, Mexico City.
Additional information: Catherine Bagnall and Katie Collier's collaborative work focuses on performance practices and its intersection with dress. It uses the distinctively cultural form of clothing to explore the human non-human animal divide.

Exhibiting works

• Catherine Bagnall & Katie Collier: (Rabbit and Gecko, the breeze and the warmth and their clothes.), 2013 ; Identification of exhibit: costume, video, others, Audio Track ;
  Comments: Two women dressed as a Gecko and a Rabbit discuss how their clothing enables a becoming 'other'. Their conversation explores whether this allows for a different way of being in this world and a more respectful relationship to other non-human creatures. The changing climate underpins their talk of feelings, sensations, weather and raincoats and fur.
• Katie Collier

* 1991
Specialization: fashion designer, visual artist, Design for Performance
Education: MFA, Massey University
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2014 Transformational strategies, The Margeila rabbit and  the Gecko Girl A performance presented at Shapeshifting  AUT,Auckland New Zealand. Made in collaboration with  Catherine Bagnall.
Additional information: Catherine Bagnall and Katie Collier's collaborative work focuses on performance practices and its intersection with dress. It uses the distinctively cultural form of clothing to explore the human non-human animal divide.

Exhibiting works

• Catherine Bagnall & Katie Collier: (Rabbit and Gecko, the breeze and the warmth and their clothes.), 2013 ; Identification of exhibit: costume, video, others, Audio Track ;
  Comments: Two women dressed as a Gecko and a Rabbit discuss how their clothing enables a becoming 'other'. Their conversation explores whether this allows for a different way of being in this world and a more respectful relationship to other non-human creatures. The changing climate underpins their talk of feelings, sensations, weather and raincoats and fur.
• Daniel Belton

* 1970
Specialization: director, choreographer, sound artist, visual artist, Dancer, Cinematographer, Film Editor, Puppeteer, Designer, Pedagogue, Speaker
Education: Double Diploma Honours (Scholarship) New Zealand School of Dance  1989/90. Otago University; Massey University; CNZ Choreographic Fellowship; Caldas University; Bauhaus University
Collaboration with theatres: Otago Festival of the Arts, Body Festival, Tempo Festival, Cinedans, Toitu,  Nga Taonga Sound and Vision.
Teaching activities: NZ School of Dance, Otago University,AUT, Massey University, Dance Films  Association New York, Caldas University Colombia, Bauhaus University  Weimar, Ryerson University, Leeds Metropolitan University, Codarts, xm:lab  Germany, Sapienza University, Millennium Performing Arts London.
Participation in other important exhibitions: Zentrum Paul Klee; NZ Film Archive; Dowse Museum; Toitu Museum; IDN VideoDansa, Dance on Camera, Sala Parpallo; ReelDance; Napolidanza; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Genius Loci Weimar; HBKSaar MediaFacade; Attakkalari India Biennial.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Zentrum Paul Klee, Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Royal New Zealand  Ballet, Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec, CINEDANS, Museo  de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires,Attakkalari India Biennial.
Awards: Winner London Evening Standard Award for Most Outstanding Production/Laurence Olivier Award nominee with Arc Dance Company 1994; Winner Best Video Creacion Canariasmediafest 2004; Finalist Roma Independent Film Festival 2005; Finalist VideoDansa Barcelona Prize 2007; Winner Filmaka International Film Competition 2007; Finalist ReelDance Awards 2008; Winner Most Innovative Work, Il Coreografo Elettronico 2008; Finalist ReelDance Awards 2010;  DANZQ Magazine 2010 Most Outstanding Choreography; Awarded CNZ Choreographic Fellowship 2010; Finalist Roma Independent Film Festival 2011; Finalist International Festival of Contemporary Animation & Media-art Linoleum 2012.
Additional information: He is an internationally renowned New Zealand choreographer, dance film maker, multi-media artist and pedagogue. He is the artistic director of Good Company Arts. www.goodcompanyarts.com

Exhibiting works

• Daniel Belton: (OneOne), Good Company Arts 2014 Dr Richard Nunns, Janessa Dufty, Nigel Jenkins, WJS Grenfell, Simon Kaan, Donnine Harrison, Daniel Belton ; Identification of exhibit: sketch, costume, object, part of the stage , video ;
  Comments: Dance, visuals and sound combine to tell the story of the hu­man as part of an eternal cycle. OneOne transports the audi­ence to a world caught between timelessness and the here and now. The work invokes a sense of ancient culture, an archetype being unearthed through real-world experience that is timeless and contemporary.
• Carol Brown

* 1964, Dunedin
Specialization: choreographer, Performance, Site Responsive Work and Research.
Education: PhD Choreography; MA(Distinction) Dance Studies;  BA(Hons) 1st Class History
Collaboration with theatres: The Place Theatre, London.
Teaching activities: University of Auckland, New Zealand and University of  Roehampton, London, UK.
Participation in other important exhibitions: Roma Europa; Dance Umbrella; Brighton Festival.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Dorita Hannah and Russell Scoones
Awards: Ludwig Forum International Prize for Innovation.
Additional information: Her work explores the cracks between art forms. Working in sustained collaborations, her body of work has evolved through dialogue and experimentation in diverse settings.

Exhibiting works

• : (FLOOD: Tongues of Stone, Prague: a landscape Performance in-process), MAP: Music_Architecture_Performance 0 ; Identification of exhibit: others, Photos and Videos in NZ exhibition Headphonic Performance in the city. ;
  Comments: A site-responsive, dance-architecture event threading through Prague:
  exhibiting MAP’s process for Auckland-based projects, 1000 Lovers (March 2013) and Tuna Mau (November 2013). Engaging with weather as emergent, contingent and processual, it enacts a fluid narrative by interweaving stories of Aotearoa/NZ with local histories and mythologies.
• David Cross

* 1968, Melbourne
Specialization: curator, visual artist, Writer, Professor.
Education: BA Monash  MA Monash  PhD QUT
Teaching activities: Professor of Visual Arts, Deakin University
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2013 Scape Public Art Christchurch  2012 Melbourne International Festival  2012 Obstinate Object, Wellington city Art Gallery  2010 Liveworks, Performance Space Sydney
Additional information: He works across performance, installation, video and photography. His practice brings together performance art and object-based environments, focusing on relationships between pleasure, the grotesque and phobia.

Exhibiting works

• David Cross: (Sky), 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: object, others, Public. Space ;
  Comments: Three feet above it is moist, I can see it, smell it, my body is prepared for the delicious prick of moisture. There is a small bracing; tensing in anticipation. The sense of delay is absolute. It effects time in the strangest ways. I share this orchestration with everyone in the street, people who have umbrellas, people moving under awnings. We're ready.
• Sue Gallagher

* 1973, Auckland
Specialization: teacher, scenographer, Spatial Design
Education: MA Scenography with Distinction from Central St Martins in partnership with  Hogeskool van Kunsten Utrecht.  Bachelor of Architecture, First Class Honours, University of Auckland.
Teaching activities: Sue Gallagher supervises Spatial Design Postgraduate candidates in the Honours and Master of Art + Design programmes at AUT University and is  the Leader of MESH an innovative network for multidisciplinary collaborative  art and design practice.
Additional information: She is based in Auckland, New Zealand. Gallagher was the New Zealand Co-Curator and Exhibition Designer for the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in 2007 and 2011.

Exhibiting works

• New Zealand Dance Company. Choreographers include Michael Parmenter, Shona McCullagh, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Justin Haiu. : (Language of Living, New Zealand Dance Company), ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre. 2012, Director: Shona McCullagh, Creative Director
  , Tým designérů tvoří/The design team included: Sue Gallagher (scéénografie/set design), Matt Marshall (světelný design/lighting), Andreas Mikellis (kostýmy/costume), Gerbrand van Melle (animovaná grafika/animated graphics). ; Identification of exhibit: video, others, Miniature video installation ;
  Comments: The Language of Living set design was an atmospheric composition that was fluid, transformative and responsive. The design was primarily a play on the scenic backdrop where foil loops would roll in and out slowly to create a shifting series of performance spaces that responded to the specific movement sequence of each dance.
• Mark Harvey

* 1972, Auckland
Specialization: He sometimes writes and has been included in a range of international publications such as Performance Research Journal (UK, 2006, 2009 and 2013), the Live Art Almanac (UK, Canada and Australia, 2013), and The South Project (Melbourne, 2013).
Education: PhD (AUT)
Teaching activities: He is a Senior Lecturer at The National Institute for Creative  Arts and Industries, at The University of Auckland and has  guest taught recently at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts  1  guest taught recently at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts  (Finland), Funen Art Academy (Denmark), Luleå Theatre  Academy (Sweden),AUT and Massey University.
Participation in other important exhibitions: The 55th Venice Biennale for Visual Arts (2013) The New Zealand International Festival of the Arts with Letting Space and City Gallery (2012) The New Performance Festival Turku (Finland, 2014)  The Trendheim Kunstmuseum (Norway, 2012) Te Tuhi Gallery (NZ)
Additional information: He is an artist who works in performance related practices. He has presented in a range of contexts in Aotearoa/NZ and internationally with physical endurance, social practice and installations.

Exhibiting works

• Mark Harvey: (Reception Party), 2014 ; Identification of exhibit: others, Live Performance ;
  Comments: A Reception Party is a durational and endurance performance where Mark Harvey welcomes visitors at the entrance of the New Zealand pavilion and invites them to argue with him about climate change, related politics and their effects on the oceans and rising sea levels. When people tire of the debate they are invited to push him over.
• Christina Houghton

* 1973
Specialization: choreographer, teacher, costume designer, Dance, Performance Art
Education: Christina studied Zoology and dance at Otago University and has a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts at Auckland University researching  Auckland Water ecology through performance. She is now studying at AUT  in the Art and Design department.
Teaching activities: Teaching at Auckland University 2011-2013  Dance dance dance school West Auckland
Participation in other important exhibitions: Other Waters:Art on the Manukau Nov 2014  Umeå European Cultural Capital of the year. Oct 2014  Festival of Uncertainty 2014  Whau Arts Festival 2014  TEMPO Dance 2012  Theatre 466 2011-2012
Additional information: She is a New Zealand dance artist, costume designer and researcher (based in Auckland). Her performance work spans across the disciplines of choreography, costumes, ecology and art through participatory guided performance tours.

Exhibiting works

• Christina Houghton: (Still Sailing- Guided Survival Tour of the historic flood plains of Prague), 2014 ; Identification of exhibit: object, video, others, Costume as Performance Tour ;
  Comments: It explores how humans might take action in times of environmental uncertainty that include extreme heat, storm warnings and states of emergency. A participatory mobile scenography/survival tour that requires the audience, as participants, to collectively navigate through the city, engaging with weather, site, sail and survival shelter.
• Daniel James

* 1976, Wellington
Specialization: media artist, musician, DJ, VJ, Curator
Education: PhD Fine Arts (Massey University)
Teaching activities: Assistant Lecturor/Tutor: Massey University, 2005-2010.
Participation in other important exhibitions: 'I Miss You...' performed at 'Intimacy:Across Digital and  Visceral Performance', Goldsmiths College, London, 2008.  'Breakfast Party at my Studio', part of 'Remix Cinema',  Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2010.
Additional information: Dr. Dan James (aka Dan Untitled) is an artist and curator based in Wellington. His eclectic work traverses performance, video, audio, web media and robotics. His international shows include Goldsmiths College and the Museum of Modern Art Oxford.

Exhibiting works

• Daniel James: (Aura), 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: object ;
  Comments: A golden robot watches you. You turn your head and her focus shifts towards you. You adjust your posture and approach her; she adjusts her poise in anticipation of your approach. Who is the performer?
• Janine Randerson

* 1974, Auckland
Specialization: media artist
Education: Ph.D in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
Collaboration with theatres: Collaboration with Stephen Bain and Kim Newall 'Antarctica'  Q Loft,Auckland (2015)
Teaching activities: Programme Leader, Media and Performance Art Masters,  AUT University.
Participation in other important exhibitions: 'Other Waters:Art on the Manukau' Te Tuhi (2014)  'Rethink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change' Denmark.  (2009-2010)  'The Trouble With the Weather' UTS Gallery, Sydney. (2007)
Additional information: Programme Leader of the Masters of Performance and Media Arts at AUT University. Janine has collaborated with environmental scientists and invested social groups around the issues of climate and weather.

Exhibiting works

• Janine Randerson, Jason Johnston: (Heat Islands), 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: video, others, Sound Composition ;
  Comments: This video installation refers to the urban heat islands and the warming sea temperatures affecting the island nations in the geo-political ‘South’. Citizen recordings of the aftermath of Cyclones in New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, and sound patterns from seawater monitoring, address the climate as a performer in a global theatre of cause and effect.
• Jason Johnston

Specialization: composer, sound designer, TV production designer
Education: Unitec School of Art and Design, sculpture degree
Participation in other important exhibitions: 'Other Waters:Art on the Manukau' Te Tuhi (2014) 'Rethink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change' Denmark.(2009-2010) 'The Trouble With the Weather' UTS Gallery, Sydney. (2007)
Additional information: He composes electronic scores based on patterns of scientific meteorological data in collaboration with Janine. He is also a member of Substax; an electronic act based in Auckland.

Exhibiting works

• Janine Randerson, Jason Johnston: (Heat Islands), 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: video, others, Sound Composition ;
  Comments: This video installation refers to the urban heat islands and the warming sea temperatures affecting the island nations in the geo-political ‘South’. Citizen recordings of the aftermath of Cyclones in New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, and sound patterns from seawater monitoring, address the climate as a performer in a global theatre of cause and effect.
• Marcus McShane

* 1976
Specialization: lighting designer, Writing, Editing, Fine Arts
Education: Postgraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy, Victoria  University of Wellington.
Collaboration with theatres: Circa Theatre, Bats theatre, The Playground Collective, La Mama  experimental theatre club
Continuing collaboration with directors: Sam Trubridge, Ross Jolly
Additional information: He has produced over 300 professional designs since 2007. He is based in New Zealand, but also works in Spain, and the UK, principally for theatre, live music, and architecture. He likes books and vegetables, is mildly obsessed with efficiency.
• Lisa Reihana

* 1964, Auckland
Specialization: media artist
Education: BFAAUCKLAND UNIVERSITY  MDES UNITEC, AUCKLAND
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2014 Mareikura Articule Gallery:Canada. 2013 in Pursuit of Venus A-Space Gallery: Toronto:Canada. 2008 Mai i te aroha, ko te aroha Te Papa:NZ. 2008 Walters Art Prize Auckland Art Gallery:NZ. 2007 Native Portraits Museo Laboratoriao Arte Contemporanea
Additional information: She is an internationally renowned, multi-disciplinary artist. Spanning moving image, sculptural and multimedia formats; her work demonstrates a keen ability to communicate complex ideas about indigenous identity.

Exhibiting works

• Lisa Reihana: (in Pursuit of Venus), 2012 produkce, režie, autorka/producer, director, writer: Lisa Reihana, produkce/producer: Viv Stone, kostýmy/costume design: Steven Ball, DOP, sazeč, editor/DOP, compositor, editor: Sam Tozer, technická spolupráce/technical delivery: Tim Gruchy, zvukový design/sound design: James Pinker ; Identification of exhibit: others, Video Installation ;
  Comments: in Pursuit of Venus is a panoramic video interpretation by Lisa Reihana of Les Sauvages De La Mer Pacifique. Enlivened with dance and cultural ceremonies by a myriad of people from across New Zealand and the Pacific.
• Russell Scoones

* 1961, Dunedin
Specialization: composer, sound artist, Music Therapist
Additional information: His compositions are sourced from sound harvesting in real environments, which are then combined and manipulated to achieve an emotionally effecting sound world of depth and texture.

Exhibiting works

• : (FLOOD: Tongues of Stone, Prague: a landscape Performance in-process), MAP:: Music_Architecture_Performance 0 ; Identification of exhibit: others, Photos and Videos in NZ exhibition Headphonic Performance in the city. ;
  Comments: A site-responsive, dance-architecture event threading through Prague: exhibiting MAP’s process for Auckland-based projects, 1000 Lovers (March 2013) and Tuna Mau (November 2013). Engaging with weather as emergent, contingent and processual, it enacts a fluid narrative by interweaving stories of Aotearoa/NZ with local histories and mythologies.
  
• Rachel Shearer

* 1966, Wellington, New Zealand
Specialization: sound designer, sound artist, Educator
Education: Master of Art and Design (1st Class Honours)  PhD candidate
Additional information: Rachel Shearer investigates sound as a medium through sound installations that aim to build spatial presence based entirely on the vibrations of acoustic forms, sound composition and sound design/music for moving image and live performance.

Exhibiting works

• Rachel Shearer: (Oscillating Missive), 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: object, others, Sound ;
  Comments: Oscillating Missive is a five speaker sound work emanating from the structures that populate the New Zealand pavilion. The three discrete sequences of the work present a shifting, subtle aural ambience generated from recordings collected and processed in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
• Gerbrand van Melle

Teaching activities: Since 1996 he was involved as a   senior lecturer in Typography   and Motion Graphics at Utrecht   School of the Arts, and from   2008-2010 in Typography at   Massey University. In 2013 he   joined the Colab team at AUT University.
Participation in other important exhibitions: SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht University, National Museum  from Musical Clock to Street Organ and music venue Tivoli.
Additional information: His research domain is defined by Transmodular Design and Transmedia Narratives. The research engages with digital and physical ontology, sound visualisation, sampling methods, and generative design practice.

Exhibiting works

• Gerbrand van Melle & Stefan Marks: (PUA), New Zealand Dance Company 2012 ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: PUA shows the relationship between humans and birds. A matrix of bird species evolves into a dense typographic canopy. Bird names appear and disappear responsive to the audience presence, stressing the need to coexist and to address the territorial nature of New Zealand’s original inhabitants.
• Tony De Goldi

* 1961
Specialization: teacher, scenographer, Exhibition Design, Props and set constructor, Furniture Maker, Parent
Education: Bachelor of Design (Interiors) Victoria University of Wellington
Collaboration with theatres: Membership of the newly formed Global Centre for Indigenous Performance  Wellington NZ.  On going relationship with Tawata Productions.
Additional information: Scenographer, Theatre Maker, Exhibition and Furniture Designer. Tony has been designing for theatre for the past twenty years predominantly working with contemporary indigenous Maori and Pacific theatre practitioners.

Exhibiting works

• : (Hohepa), New Zealand Opera Company 2012 hudba/composer: Jenny Mcleod, Marc Taddei, režie/director: Sara Brodie, výprava/set and costume: Tony De Goldi, světelný design/lighting designer: Jeremy Fern, AV: Louise Potiki Bryant ; Identification of exhibit: model , others, Conceptual Model ;
  Comments: World Premier and first fully staged new work by NZ Opera. Hohepa holds an important place in New Zealand theatrical history as it is the first opera to have significant Maori (indigenous New Zealanders) content. Based on an actual historical event, the libretto for the opera was sung in both Te Reo and English. Set in 1840 and the 1980s.