Lancaster Park stadium in Christchurch, NZ had not been open to the public since the February 2011 earthquakes. The Stadium Broadcast offered Cantabrian’s a chance to once again walk on hallowed turf and deliver whatever they needed to, perhaps a eulogy, a haka, a denunciation or even a version of Tina Turner’s Private Dancer. These small gestures were broadcast to the world for 72 hours nonstop as a tribute to everything that had ever happened on this hallowed field.
This project invited Christchurch to pay homage to the ground as it sat in a state of uncertainty between abandonment and demolition. We were interested in finding the narratives that bound people to this unique place as well as providing a platform that asked how those stories might shape the future of the site.
The archive of the entire broadcast was acquired by the Nga Taonga New Zealand sound Archive.