Objective and Process

The Objective

The main objective of the project is to create an immersive storytelling experience that features visual artists, poets and musicians, to create an inter arts installation including objects and architectural designs or structures along with a written and musical component. The trios will be guided by established inter arts Wayfinder practitioners.

A musician, a visual artist and a poet will be asked to create an inter art work over an 12 week period that will have a poem component, a musical component and a visual arts component. We ask that all 3 creatives participate in the creation of a unified work together and are encouraged to blur the lines between the artforms and find ways to work collectively rather than ‘stitching 3 separate pieces together as one’

The Outcome

The Worcore Wayfinders Event year 1- 22 August 2025 (NZ Poetry Day ) - each trio will create a performance piece of max 15 minutes. The performance will also include a visual and/or installation element that will be presented in the space and with the performance. The work should be made so that it can be presented as a visual component, a live music and spoken word performance and include a theatrical stage presence in some form or way. We encourage the trios to explore ways of creating physical and digital components that can be sold as art ( if that is wanted ) as we aim to create opportunities both at the event / venue and on a website later for sales of the work.

the Wayfinders Exhibition - Initially a 4 day physical exhibition, venue TBC, that will also have opportunities to have a digital presence forMatariki in the CBD and the Doc Edge Festival (Silo 6) within the festival dates of 25th june - 13 july 2025. This will also involve opportunities to have material, artwork and content for sale during that period. We are asking the Musician, Artist and Poet to work together to create a work that has Sound, Spoken/Written Words and Visual elements. Over an 8 week period we expect physical meetups/rehearsals that results in a process of creating a unique and collective piece with equal contribution. We offer support and guidance along the way that will give us an inter arts piece at the end that will be part of the Wordcore Effect as well as the Exhibition.

The Wordcore Wayfinders Immersive Experience Event Year 2 21 August 2026 (NZ Poetry Day) - Wordcore will spend the year of 2026 to develop, share and promote the works that have been developed for Wordcore Wayfinders 25/26. We aim to present the project and creatives to look for further opportunities and funding that will allow us to put on a fully immersive, interactive and big screen event and experience for NZ Poetry Day 2026. This will also allow the participant to further fine tune, develop and create content for their work and their professional Impact Storyteller profiles. The participants of 25/26 will remain as part of the collective project to build up towards a network and opportunities market for their services and work and be invited to become advisors and mentors for 27/28.

The Process

The Troika – One Artist, Musician and Poet – will be invited to create work over a 8 week period where an artist is invited to collaborate with a musician and a poet to create a performance and installation piece.

The Artists, poets and musicians can be existing creatives involved in the Exhibitions or new pairings.

The Opening Night Performance will then live on as an installation work as part of the exhibition

The Performance itself can be between 9 – 15 minutes long, but does not need to be in a traditional spoken word recital format.

We will limit it to 6-8 trios for the second year

We will aim to travel to Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington with the installation and performance.

The Art/Visual Artist

the Work should be created as Interactive Installation Work

Interactive Installation Work is commonly either Set Design, Props, Costume or Projection Art but we are open to hear any interpretations or ideas that lends itself towards an interactive installation work.

The Art must be created as a layer of immersion to the performance of the poet and the musician.

The Poetry/Spoken Word Artist

The Poetry can be in any form the trios decide, but must talk about and Impact Topic, meaning something related to Non-Fiction that is connected to a call to action, Change or real life

It must also touch on the exhibition concept of “Making the invisible shine”, but we are open to this being interpreted in any way the trio sees fit.

The Music/Audio Artist

The Music can be anything but should be performed live for the Wordcore Event.

The Music should be developed with the visual artist and the spoken word artist and engage with the work as a co-creation for the project.

Ideally there will be a recorded element of the music, even if this is of the live performance that becomes part of the exhibition after the performance.