Join us from 5pm on Friday 4 Hōngongoi July to celebrate the launch of our third chapter of exhibitions and projects.

For 2025 Enjoy is working in a seasonal approach to our exhibitions and programming, hosting six 'Chapters' throughout the year. This shift in our exhibition calendar aligns with our sustainability mission, fostering cohesive storytelling while preserving adaptability and strengthening community engagement.

For Chapter Three, Enjoy is excited to launch An Ethics of Witnessing featuring new commissions by Fetishini, Aroha and Frankie Matchitt-Millar, and p Walters.

Following the opening event at 9pm is a performance by Fetishini with Ys Blue, Chloe Jaques, and Kat Lang. This performance will be ticketed and is R18. More soon!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

FETISHINI is a queer, non-binary performance artist whose work navigates the borders of abjection, desire, and identity. Rooted in lived experiences of dysphoria, neurodivergence, and queer embodiment, their practice explores how we define ourselves by rejecting what is considered dirty, shameful, taboo, or threatening to bodily and psychic coherence.

Beginning their creative journey as a drag artist, Fetishini’s work has evolved into performance that entangles body horror, fetish, and emotional intensity. Navigating the slippery terrain where desire and revulsion coexist, Fetishini confronts sanitised cultural narratives about bodily coherence and identity.

Their performances are ritualistic encounters with what we are meant to disown—staging intimacy with shame, fetish, body horror, and emotional excess. In doing so, they offer a kind of exposure therapy through art: not to cure, but to coexist with what we are told to hide.

AROHA MATCHITT-MILLAR (Ngāti Rangitihi, Te Whakatōhea, Tūhoe) is a multidisciplinary artist with strong foundations in contemporary jewellery and raranga. Her work is influenced by the practices her tīpuna used, intrinsically passed down through whakapapa.

Using feathers, feet, wings, and bones, Aroha creates contemporary jewellery, influenced by urban Māori 'Hori Chic' style. The intimacy of the process of skinning and pelting manu is both cathartic and repairing, recognizing the role colonisation had in separating Māori from these taonga while whatu-ing the strands of whakapapa back together. Her mahi is a rats tail reclamation to climb te ara a Whaititiri and have a cuppa with her nan.

FRANKIE MATCHITT-MILLAR is a multidisciplinary artist based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Through his work Matchitt-Millar explores his takatāpuhitanga alongside his Māoritanga, through embodied making. Connection to audience is an integral part of Matchitt-Millar’s making; reindigenising the realm of performance and creating accessible mahi to his community.

P WALTERS is a taniwha, local to the Kingdom of South Auckland and beyond, with wings and bones stretching across from Aotearoa and to various islands of Tonga. Their work reflects their dissidence to the colonial imagination and legacy of “new zealand” and their devotion to venerating their queer & othered body.

Graduating with BFA First Class Honours in 2022 from Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, they practice collectively & individually throughout the motu & Moana via curation, exhibition making, public programming, writing, connecting, and more.