call/waiting
presented by O&P works
Date: March - April | More dates to follow
Location: 106 Courtenay Place, then journey throughout Courtenay
Media: Press release
Call/Waiting is an app-enabled interactive experience which invites you, the participant, to dial into a curious series of voicemails while you make your way around Pōneke. It’s part pick-a-path novel, part audio tour. A brand new work by Olivia Mahood and Poppy Serano (O+P Works), made in collaboration with Pickpath. Call/Waiting is a 30 minute experience. It begins when you access the app via your Apple or Android smartphone. You control your experience and how long you spend in it. You can start and stop as you please, more details here…
“We began utilising digital technology in 2020 in order to continue to present interactive work under changing circumstances. It has continued to play an important role in our work, as a way to increase accessibility and open up new possibilities for interactivity. We first encountered Pickpath in 2022 and immediately saw the potential of the platform for use in our work. The opportunity to utilise Pickpath to design and build a technology-enabled interactive experience opens up huge potential for O+P works, both for Call/Waiting and future projects.”
O+P Works is an award-winning collaboration between Olivia Mahood and Poppy Serano. Olivia and Poppy are based in Tāmaki Makaurau and Pōneke respectively and have been collaborating since 2015. Together they make live performance and installation work with a focus on interaction, accessibility and public spaces. Their work has been presented at Auckland Arts Festival (2021), What if the City was a Theatre (2021), The Performance Arcade (2018, 2019), Expressions Gallery (2018), Auckland Fringe Festival (2018, 2019), Little Andromeda (2020) and at BATS Theatre as part of the 2021 major STAB commission.
In all of our work, we aim to give the audience the freedom to play, the space to bring their own perspective and the permission to curate their own experience.
Kindly support by Wellington City Council under the Aho Tini Strategy
