Through multilingual, cross-border collaboration, the artists explore “ripple” as a metaphor for bodies, ecologies, and movements - highlighting how transformation occurs at the intersections of place, language, and experience.

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The exhibition emphasizes collaboration across languages (English and Spanish), places (Chile, Aotearoa, Mexico, USA, Canada, etc.), and mediums (drawing, installation, video, text, and interactive digital platforms). It invites visitors to engage actively with the artworks, fostering a sense of shared creation and exchange.

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In essence, the exhibition celebrates the dynamism of artistic voices, the transformative power of migration, and the interconnectedness of forces shaping our world.

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Related Events

Raft Launch: Isla by Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira
Friday 3 October, 5pm | Frankton Beach BBQ area (Just off Timber Trail)

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Join us on the shores of Lake Whakatipu for the launch of Isla, a floating performance by Chilean artist Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira.

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This translucent raft, inhabited by native plants from Aotearoa and Rapa Nui, becomes a nomadic refuge - projecting voices and stories that explore migration, hospitality, and cultural connection across oceans and time.

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As night falls, interviews with Māori and Rapanui participants are projected from within the raft, with sound accessible via shore-based speakers or QR code.
Bring a blanket, stay for the BBQ, and witness this powerful, living installation as it begins its journey around the lake.

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In case of bad weather, check Te Atamira's social media for updates.

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Cyanotype Workshop | Taller de Cianotipia (English/Spanish)
Saturday 4 October, 10:30am - 12pm | Te Atamira

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Learn about the process of creating cyanotypes in this hands-on workshop which reflects the use of the cyanotype in the exhibition Notes in the Border, Notes at the River, Notes from the Ocean. We will look at making cyanotypes based on text (from handwriting) and objects.

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In this bilingual (English/Spanish) workshop you will explore creating your own photograms and photographic images using the alternative photographic process of cyanotype. Students will learn about using and mixing cyanotype chemicals, how to apply cyanotype to paper, creating negatives and how to print using the natural light of the sun.

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Participants will have the opportunity to create their own cyanotype photograms during the workshop.

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No experience necessary. All materials provided.

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About the Artists:

Alys Longley is a Professor of Creative Arts and an interdisciplinary artist with twenty years’ experience in artistic research practice. She has worked closely with Jeffrey Holdaway, Francisco González Castro, Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira, and Macarena Campbell-Parra over nine years to develop new international performance opportunities in Latin America, Europe, and the USA. Alys is highly experienced in leading interdisciplinary teams, such as in Fluid City, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together, which involved large teams and ambitious artistic goals.

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An interdisciplinary artist, writer, and teacher, Alys Longley’s work spans live performance, artist books, installation, film, education curriculum, poetry, performance writing, and lecture-demonstration. Over the last decade, she has explored mistranslation studies - working across languages and disciplines to examine the spill of ideas beyond conventional systems of meaning - through a series of international artistic research projects in Berlin (Germany), Santiago (Chile), Coimbra (Portugal), New York City and Chicago (USA), Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and Pōneke/Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), Vienna (Austria), and Stockholm (Sweden). Alys is a Professor in the Department of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland.

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Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira has developed an extensive international career over the past twenty years, creating work across South America, North America, Europe, Asia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. He studied Fine Arts at ARCIS University in Santiago, graduating in 2000, and later completed a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the University of Chile in 2002. He has been awarded numerous national and international fellowships, residencies, and awards, enabling the development of his work in both solo and group exhibitions. He has represented Chile in many international exhibitions on South American art.

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Corvalán-Pincheira spent the first eighteen years of his life in exile from his homeland of Chile, living in Bogotá, Berlin, Havana, and Mexico City. This formative experience of displacement informs a diverse body of work that spans individual, community, social, biological, and ecological concerns - primarily expressed through multi-modal installation including sculpture, video, performance actions, sound, photography, and painting.

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Francisco González Castro was born in 1984 in Santiago, Chile. He is an artist, researcher, and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (2006) and a Master of Arts (2009) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as a PhD in Arts (2017), with a specialisation in Visual Arts, from the same institution.

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Since 2005, he has developed a body of work that includes both solo and group exhibitions and presentations in Chile and internationally (including Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, the United States, Mexico, Lebanon, and Peru, among others).

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His artistic and research practice addresses social and political issues related to power, along with reflections on the usefulness of art as a catalyst for concrete social change. His work positions the concept of the political-artistic—art that responds directly to contemporary conditions and urgencies.

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Macarena Campbell-Parra is a Chilean dance artist whose creative interests lie primarily in collaborative and interdisciplinary processes. She has had an extensive dance career across Europe and South America.

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Macarena is an academic in the Dance Department at the Universidad de Chile and co-directs Plantar, a platform that manages and produces workshops for professional dance artists in Santiago.

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In 2019, she choreographed and performed the solo work FASMA at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago.

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Image: Alys Longley, Mistranslation Notes, 2025, ink and graphite on paper envelopes.