HELL
Ys Blue
Opening performance with Veale Moss and Odeious
Saturday 21 March, 9pm
R18
Registration essential: [email protected]
Ys Blue opens HELL in collaboration with Odeious and Veale Moss on Saturday 21 March at 9pm, with a performance that acts as the project’s initiating gesture.
Drawing on necropolitical frameworks, HELL considers the power dynamics that determine which bodies are protected and which are exposed to death and suffering. The performance situates the body within a longer lineage of post-nuclear and Cold War imaginaries, where faith, apocalypse and military futurism collapse into one another. HELL reflects on how contemporary regimes of security mobilise religious narratives alongside technological violence, particularly within militarised contexts where apocalyptic belief systems are entangled with geopolitical strategies. Here, the body is caught within the weaponisation of ideology itself.
The performance establishes the conceptual ground from which Blue’s exhibition HELL emerges, foregrounding the body as a battleground within systems of belief, surveillance and control.
Supported by Ritual Heaps.
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𝙺𝚊𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚐 (@katlang___ ) is exhibiting at the Aotearoa Art Fair (@aotearoaartfair ) this week with 𝗗𝗝𝗖𝗦 (@djcs.future ) as part of ʜᴏʀɪᴢᴏɴꜱ, a new project that highlights ascendant artists supported by Chapman Tripp (@chapman_tripp_nz ). Visit the 𝗗𝗝𝗖𝗦 booth to view more.
Photographer: Connor Ward (@connorjaward )
Stylist: Ys Blue (@flesh_spirit )
Clothing: Gloria (@gloria_nz_ ); Jimmy D (@jimmyd_was_here ), JPG
Fair details —
VIP PREVIEW
Thursday 1 May, 2pm – 5pm
OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 1 May, 5pm – 9pm
GENERAL ENTRY
Friday 2 May, 11am – 6pm
Saturday 3 May, 11am – 6pm
Sunday 4 May, 11am – 5pm