“We’re looking out through a window to a field of weeds and sand and stones”: The Stadium Broadcast, a Radio Memorial

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SAGE Publications
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English
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2018
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Joyce ZC
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This paper explores the scope of small-scale radio to create an auditory geography of place. It focuses on the short term art radio project The Stadium Broadcast, which was staged in November 2014 in an earthquake-damaged sports stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. Thousands of buildings and homes in Christchurch have been demolished since the Februrary 22, 2011 earthquake, and while Lancaster Park sports stadium is still standing, it has been unused since that date and its future remains uncertain. The Stadium Broadcast constructed a radio memorial to the Park’s 130 year history through archival recordings, the memories of local people, observation of its current state, and a performed site-specificity. The Stadium Broadcast reflected on the spatiality of radio sounds and transmissions, memory, post-disaster transitionality, and the im-permanence of place.

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Joyce ZC (2018). “We’re looking out through a window to a field of weeds and sand and stones”: The Stadium Broadcast, a Radio Memorial. Space and Culture. 120633121775262-120633121775262.
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Field of Research::21 - History and Archaeology::2102 - Curatorial and Related Studies::210202 - Heritage and Cultural Conservation
Fields of Research::43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430320 - New Zealand history
Fields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4702 - Cultural studies::470214 - Screen and media culture
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