Urban Devas

Urban Devas, a collaboration between sonic artist Phil Dadson and choreographer Carol Brown was commissioned by Auckland City Council for  Living Room 2010, as a  Public Art Event.

A roving chorus of 10 women dressed in high visibility clothing and carrying megaphones inhabit a series of civic sites within a Central Business District.  Informed by Max Ernst;s graphic novel and artist's book Une Semaine de Bonte (A week of Kindness) they appear as surreal figures - devas - between reality and myth.  Arriving unannounced and out of the blue, they sing strange greetings, howl, whisper and metamorphose into bird-like standing figures, gathering attention and transforming civic spaces into performance enounters.  

http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whaton/events/livingroom/