The Public Stand: An ode to the Avondale Racecourse [Performance]
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Wood, Becca
Mullen, M.
Hobbs, P.
Pedersen, R.
Valentine, Jonty
Mullen, M.
Hobbs, P.
Pedersen, R.
Valentine, Jonty
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2025-10
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Ngā Upoko Tukutuku (Māori subject headings)
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Avondale Racecourse (Avondale Sunday Market)
Avondale (Auckland, N.Z.)
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
race tracks
site-specific art
sound installations (art)
peformance art
participatory art
Avondale (Auckland, N.Z.)
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
race tracks
site-specific art
sound installations (art)
peformance art
participatory art
ANZSRC Field of Research Code (2020)
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Wood, B., Mullen, M., Hobbs, P., Pedersen, R., & Valentine, J. (2025, October, 17-18). The Public Stand - an ode to the Avondale Racecourse. [Performance]. Whau Arts Festival, Auckland, New Zealand.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/7283
Abstract
Artists Molly Mullen and Becca Wood, along with Rachel Ruckstahl-Mann and other performers, created this aural mobilised part tribute, part enactment of the racecourse. There were two modalities: one with headphones which required pre-booking and a certain amount of mobility on behalf of the participant and the other, remaining in the grandstand, with an usher and listening directly and visibly from two speakers, labelled “Magness Sound”.
Tu’u chose the latter, as it gave her the most freedom to physically move around the rows and play housie on the brightly designed cards of Jonty Valentine. Pink and yellow were prominent hues of the artistic parameters, with the artists, wearing handmade vests of the same colours with individual phrases.
ROLES: Becca Wood (Director), Molly Mullen (Director), Peter Hobbs (Sound designer), Racheal Pedersen (Props material designer) & Jonty Valentine (Graphic designer)
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