Voice Tide Ōtāhuhu Performance 🎶

The Ōtāhuhu Mainstreet shopping area on Great South Road, and its PA sound system, will be activated in a new performance by Ōtāhuhu-based artist Brent Harris.
Long known for playing music for shoppers, the PA system has recently been upgraded by The Ōtāhuhu Business Association. Voice Tide will be the first art project to engage this Ōtāhuhu icon.
Voice Tide will be four live audio performances on the Mainstreet PA system. The PA speakers are distributed along the Ōtāhuhu Mainstreet on Great South Road. Each performance will start at 12.30pm and be of five minutes’ duration, as follows:
Cut-Splice Friday 9th April, 2021
Graft Friday 16th April, 2021
Mohana-Confluence Saturday 17th April, 2021
Sounding Date to be announced
Each performance will explore relations between Amitav Ghosh’s (2004) novel The Hungry Tide, and Lisa Truttman’s (2020) history Between the Waters: a history of the Ōtāhuhu canal reserve.
Voice Tide is presented in partnership with the Ōtāhuhu Business Association, and funded and supported by Creative Communities Auckland City.
Voice Tide is the latest in a series of works exploring the possibilities and limits of translation between written works of fiction, and performance.