2024
Layne Waerea, Joe Jowitt, Ziggy Lever, Deborah Rundle, and Charlie Stringer.
Bonus Play locates itself in the contested public spaces of inner city Tāmaki Mākaurau Auckland. In particular, Auckland Council’s 'bonus floor scheme' which, since the 1970s, has encouraged private developers to increase the floor space of high-rise buildings by providing public access or a 'public benefit' as a result of the changed built-up environment. These usually take the form of pedestrian access-ways through buildings, escalators, widened footpaths, and privately-owned artworks accessible to the general public. This work acknowledges and explores these public spaces and benefits and offers an alternative and playful map that at times sits alongside, intersects, and even overlays existing routes, paths and junctures of inner-city Tāmaki Makaurau.
Bonus Play was commisioned by Auckland Council and curated by Mark Williams for CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image (presented by Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival). Wild, Wild, Life was a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day.
Bonus Play was installed in the Strand Arcade (Elliot St end) for the duration of the festival.
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Installation view, Layne Waerea with Joe Jowitt, Ziggy Lever, Deborah Rundle, and Charlie Stringer, Bonus Play (2024), Strand Arcade, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Photos by David St George.