Prime Minister Mark Brown had asked for Cook Islanders to have their own passports "to recognise our own people" - but New Zealand has said that is not possible unless the Cook Islands becomes fully independent.

Badenoch became the party's sixth leader in less than nine years when she was elected at the start of November.

The question becomes: If they’re not the only ones who understand that about him, who else saw that and how and why was he weaponized?

But he champions the possibility of audiences becoming "part of this moving exhibition" through the "carnival-esque environment with performance artists with light, with sound".

"It is very exciting and I think this will become standard procedure in the future."