14 - 19 July, 2025
Routes/Worlds
320 George Street. Dunedin
Property Partner: London Realty Limited
Images: Justin Spiers
Routes/Worlds was a transdisciplinary, site-responsive project presented in the former Company of Strangers shop, 320 George Street, by Choreographer Carol Brown (Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance) and composer Simon Eastwood (Mozart Fellow).
Artists involved were Choreographer Carol Brown, composer Simon Eastwood, video artist Erica Sklenars, dancer Cassidy Scoones, dancer Anna Noonan, dancer Ali East, musician Xavier Johnson (Taonga Pūoro), musician Tomuri Spicer (Taonga Pūoro), musician Ro Rushton-Green (Violin), musician Alan Starrat (Viola), and Jim Fyfe(former DOC range and Sealion expert).
Routes/Worlds was imagined as a networked garden making connections between the urban terrain of Ōtepoti, its surrounding coastline, and data flows. Visible to the public through the shopfront window and open at scheduled times, the space became a dynamic platform where musicians and dancers responded to each other through movement and sound, activating poetic and playful scores, re-fashioning the site. A rack of clothes, a pile of wetsuits, musical instruments and a bare floor became a living workspace where creative labour unfolded in real time. The acts of experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration were made visible, framing invention as a vital part of daily life.
Over the week, the project invited porous artistic exchange. Ecopoetic sources, such as images, sounds, wildlife observations, and movements across urban and coastal environments, informed an emergent event space. Artists mapped sound, image, and gesture through processes of convergence and diffraction, creating sensory routes in and out of the shopfront. Curiosity, participation, and deep listening were key modes of engagement.
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