Exhibition opening: Benjamin Ord & Other Cinemas and Friends

past event

Exhibition opening: Benjamin Ord & Other Cinemas and Friends

Friday 6 Nov 2026
5:30pm

Call in your muses & Unseen. Unheard. Unarchived. exhibition openings. Photo by Renati Waaka.

Join us from 5:30pm on Friday 6 November to celebrate Enjoy's last exhibition opening of 2026!

We will be previewing Benjamin Ord, Call in your muses, curated by Tendai Mutambu and Other Cinemas and Friends, Unseen. Unheard. Unarchived. curated by Hana Pera Aoake.

Enjoy is pleased to present Call in your muses, the first institutional solo exhibition by Benjamin Ord, bringing together a suite of existing and newly commissioned moving image works.

Unseen. Unheard, Unarchived. is an exhibition in the form of a two part film screening programme featuring work by Other Cinemas (Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa), students from the Other Cinemas filmmaking programme, and artists connected to Aotearoa.

Call in your muses & Unseen. Unheard. Unarchived. exhibition openings. Photo by Renati Waaka.

Benjamin Ord is an artist and choreographer born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand and based in London. His practice, primarily based in performance and moving image, explores how the body pushes against the fixed surface of a finite image, object or linear time. Frequently using methodologies and forms that are lo-fi and queer, his work points to an expanded notion of liveness that intervenes in the present moment in order to gesture towards the transformational potential of the future. He has shown work at venues including Marta Mora, RM Gallery, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Close-Up Film Centre, APT Gallery, Spike Island, DAAD Gallery, and The Place. As a dancer for over a decade he worked for several major dance companies including Company Wayne McGregor, as well as performing in work by Sriwhana Spong, Tino Seghal, and Pablo Bronstein, among others. Benjamin holds an MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA Creative Practice from Trinity Laban, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Kingston School of Art at Kingston University, London.

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. This gathering is facilitated through ‘Other Cinemas’, a project they established in 2019 which regularly hosts community screenings and discussions, as well as a film school for Black and non-white communities. Their films reflect on the forces which shape the communities they belong to such as environmental harm, displacement and other legacies of colonialism. They are also guided by questions of justice and how those in the margins create vital spaces for resistance and alternative ways of being. By combining community screenings and a film school with their own filmmaking practice, they seek to think expansively about the potential of film as a tool for radical transformation.

Their work has been exhibited at LUX, Humber Street Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and as part of the Brent Biennial ‘22. Festival screenings include CPH:DOX, Dokufest, Hot Docs, London Short Film Festival (awarded Best Short Documentary ’25) and BlackStar Film Festival (Best Short Documentary 2024). In 2025, they were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award.

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator living at the foot of Pūtauaki maunga. They are a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology, a mum and an author of three books. A fourth book is due at the end of this year with Discipline publishing. With the support of Te Tuhi and the British arts council, they undertook a curatorial residency at Delfina foundation with Metroland cultures in London in 2024, which is where they met and first had a yarn with Other Cinemas about movies.