Parrhesia

Text video installation, duration 5 minutes (continuous loop), Hana Pera Aoake and Jordana Bragg made by Sean Burn.

Friday 7 October – Wednesday 11 October
Window of Emporium Vintage 103A Cuba St, Wellington

In rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as: “to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking”. In August Hana Pera Aoake and Jordana Bragg undertook a week long takeover of the Lokal stories Instagram and Twitter accounts. HPA wrote almost a thousand tweets. JB erased all of these by deleting approximately 150-200 a day.

‘Parrhesia’ is a selection of these tweets, which act as a series of poems or anxious truths around intimacy, grief, capitalism and how we mediate our ‘selves’, emotions and relationships through technology. Parrhesia is a animated text work designed by irl angel, Sean Burn.