Author(s): Alexa Wilson

Culture

Theatre of Ocean is a memoir of outtakes from a performance artist moving backwards and forwards in space and time in a world recently past. Alexa Wilson offers us the interwoven remains of performance, love, art, culture, gender and politics. Juxtaposing real stories with art works and musings performed, scripted, staged, or improvised, Theatre of Ocean reveals an artist clawing at the possibilities for social-political change in a dynamic triumvirate of settings: New York, Berlin, New Zealand.

An established international performance, dance and video artist from New Zealand but based in Berlin at the time of writing, Alexa Wilson leads the reader through a world of global performance traversing cultures and times during the peak and crisis of a consumer age.

Alexa Wilson is an NZ dance, performance and video artist, curator and writer who has been Berlin based for a decade. Prolific in her work, she has presented performance and video works in theatre and visual arts contexts across NZ, Europe/UK, Asia, North America, and Australia.

Alexa has collaborated with Touch Compass and Footnote NZ Dance Company on The Status of Being (2014), and The Dark Light (2017). She curated Morni Hills Performance Residency in India (2017) and is currently the artistic director of Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa 2019/20.