Tongan born Uhila addresses his uncle’s arrival in New Zealand in the 1970s, after 4 weeks hiding on a ship. Over the four days of the Arcade the stowaway enacts his secretive survival process under 24-hour supervision: leaving traces of his activity in unexpected places. The performance encompasses the highs and many lows that take place for the stowaway, while he is locked in the shipping container. All the while he is surveyed through peepholes in the container walls and video links to other locations in Te Papa Tongarewa and City Art Gallery: an unwelcome body caught in the act of transgressing boundaries defined by architecture, technology and the state.