MAHIKAI BREEZE
“One good thing about this breeze, when it hits you feel no pain”
Mahikai Breeze is monthly curated music event / meeting place / exhibition / galactic collusion / break fracture / playground for Naarm sound thinkers, experiments, and dance operators.
We are fortunate to have these artists below who have blessed Mahikai Ark, include:
DJ Mulch; Jex; Tiaki; HOHA; Kamna; Fei; Coquivacoa; Anak Bangsa DJs; Electric Scorpion DJs; ATA2UD; Marousshti; Indicia; Prophet Gaz; Claddy Wood; DJ Matab; Luqman; Akoufena; Rockley Beats; Third Eyes; Caliente Collective; General Feelings; EMELYNE; Various Assess; GERYON; Guy Faletolu; LAKATOI; Bad Grammar; Another Year of Existing Rain (A.Y.E.R); Primary Thug; DJ Bakh; GrumbL; Nikoppix; Miss Katalyna; LEGO; General Vibe; _MO; Toe Cutter; Garden Seat DJs; Altar Ego; Lavandita; Old Places; Eagle vs Drone; and Flash Poetry.
“Locality is our specialty – Made in Naarm for Naarm”
EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
“Great Oceania Ethos; Coexistence of Collective Knowledge; Transversal; Multiperspective; and Nature Continuum“
☀️ Mahikai Breeze, Various location, Ongoing
☀️ Southern Yardies, Shop Bao Ngoc, Ongoing
☀️ Southern Yardies Declaration, Mahikai Lab, 2024
☀️ Blue Eden: The Pacific Stories, Seventh Gallery, 2024
☀️ Inflicted, Black Spark Cultural Centre, 2023
☀️ The Voyagers: Asia Pacific spice trade, Shop Bao Ngoc, 2022
☀️ Static Position: Memoirs of woking class, Footscray Art Centre, 2022
☀️ Static Position: Memoirs of woking class, Art Box Residency, 2022
🌝 FAMILI – curated by Ripley Kavara, 2019 – Ongoing
🌝 Kenduri vol.2, School House Studio, 2025
🌝 Great Ocean Volumes commissioned by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi and Ripley Kavara, Culture Lab, Arts House, 2024
🌝 Into the Scorp, Rest In Spit, 2024
🌝 Reality Check Fest #2, Unassigned Gallery, 2024
🌝 Leo SZN: Lakatoi and Friends, Flippys, 2024
🌝 Kenduri, Useful Box Warehouse, 2024
🌝 United Poets for Earth Liberation, Mamma Chens, 2024
🌝 Under Fuego, curated by Caliente Collective, 2024
🌝 Catalyst Fiesta, Catalyst Social Centre, 2024
🌝 Mahikai SS and the Dub Poets Launch, Mamma Chen’s, 2024
🌝 420 Music, curated by Garden Seat, Redhill hotel, 2024
🌝 Code Street comic book, commissioned by Next in Colour, 2023
🌝 Ko Kori Toku Ingoa, curated by Sean Miles and Kori, Black Dot Gallery, 2022
🌝 High Rise, High Five – colouring book, commissioned, 2021
🌝 The Voices Factory, [Online], 2020
🌝 The Change Theatre, Collingwood High Rise, 2018-2020
ORQUIDEA’S GALLERY
“Nature-cultural praxis; Great Oceania Ethos; Stories; Prau Symbolism; Simplicity; Cultural Diversity; Social relation; Geopolitic; Contemporary Context“
Images above are courtesy of Seventh Gallery (2024)