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Hidden City Maps
Auckland 2011
LudiCity
This work offered a private experience of the city, where visitors were invited to wander the streets around Aotea Square equipped with a personalised soundtrack on an MP3 player and a specially packaged performance kit. This ‘pervasive performance’ project rendered the city a place of filmic magic and performative potential. As they embarked on their instructed journey participants were invited to follow directions in the soundscape, experiencing the spectacles of Auckland City, and creating a few new spectacles of their own. Visitors without the time for this connection with the work wrote their memories and stories of the city on the wall of the space for others to read, using flags to locate each experience in the geography around them.
As LudiCIty’s first project, Hidden City Maps received considerable profile and interest in a range of festivals and public events since its first expression in late 2010 in the Massey University Blow Festival programme. It was a feature of The Performance Arcade 2011 on Wellington Waterfront, where it was popular with tourists seeking new ways of experiencing the city. It was then a part of the Creative NZ 21st Century Arts Conference at The Edge, Auckland and the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. This month LudiCity have been selected for a month long residency with the world‐ leading pervasive performance company Blast Theory, in Brighton, UK in 2012.
