Wellington was in high spirits this past weekend as CubaDupa took over the central city with incredible live performances, parades, art and food stalls.
CubaDupa embraced the creative capital of Aotearoa through its 2024 festival once again. Throughout the streets of Pōneke on the weekend of 23–24 March, CubaDupa took over and provided exceptional art, music, culture, food, markets, street performances .
The Noospheric Society (2021). Courtesy the artist.
Angelo Plessas was doing plank pose in the narrow space between the foot of his bed and the hotel wall. Several of his quilted sculptures were spread out beneath him to soften the hard floor. Hotel staff dropped off warm meals several times a day.
“It is sort of like a residency,” the Greek artist told me over a WhatsApp call on day seven of his 14-day quarantine in an 18-square-meter room in Seoul. (The artist had been uploading the footage to Instagram as a kind of performative ritual.) Following his stay, Plessas planned to head to a sacred mountain to meet the South Korean shaman Dodam, with whom he is collaborating for the 13th Gwangju Biennial.