AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL MEDIA RELEASE

13 April 2007

Latest additions to the Living Room

The CBD's Living Room is now in full swing with four of the series of eight visual and performing art installations - Runner, Makeover, WOTS UP, and This Other City - currently appearing at various locations around the city.

Next week two new Living Room installations - Auckestrated Moves and Baby where are the fine things you promised me? will spring up where you least expect them and add a surprising and thought-provoking element to the everyday hustle and bustle of the city.

Living Room is funded by the CBD targeted rated and is one of many projects that form part of a 10-year action plan to enhance the urban environment and support the vitality and attractiveness of the CBD.

Auckestrated Moves will be staged from 16 to 19 April at Freyberg Place. Among the sea of faces, architecture and foot traffic, an innocent tourist, small child, or office worker can easily influence and become part of the music.

Composer Kingsley Melhuish, founder of record label Pacific Echoes, describes Auckestrated Moves as an instrument of the city.

"The fun will be in deciphering whether the conductor is playing the orchestra or the orchestra is playing the conductor," he says.

Baby where are the fine things you promised me? will be installed at various locations around the CBD between 19 April and 19 May. Those lucky enough to stumble across it will be engaged by the familiar sights, sounds and smells of an old Victorian cottage.

"A close look at what is going on inside the cottage will give curious passers-by a nostalgic look back at the city and an acknowledgment of what it has become," explains project designer Stephen Bain.

For more details of Living Room events, visit www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/cbd

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