Free entry
Dates
12-15 OCT, 2023
Urban Art Village

Engage with a series of artistic projects created by students from the University of Auckland's School of Architecture & Planning. They have been created and built as part of their course work and a key part of the annual Late Night Art in the city centre. 

The event, funded by Heart of the City and supported by Auckland Council and the city centre targeted rate, will activate a village of nine structures on a closed O’Connell Street from 5 pm until 9 pm with creative and interactive structures for all ages.

Artists: 

Matt Liggins | City of Dreams
Jack Wu | Dandelion Minds
Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri and Philip Lee | Making Site 
Dian Wang | 70x45 
Auckland Architecture School second year students | Papakainga Housing 

Images from Urban Art Village in 2020 and 2022.
Urban Art Village
Urban Art Village
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Matt Liggins | City of Dreams 
12 October, 5-9pm | 13 October, 9am-9pm | 14 October, 9am-5pm | 15 October, 9am-3pm

Are you sick of these large tall towering boring grey and glass boxes? Are they lacking something?
If so, come along for a four day fun building workshop to help create our City of Dreams! We would love to see your ideal utopian city come to life, so come along with your whanau and friends and create what you think the city is missing. We will provide cardboard tubes, hot glue guns, paint, and stuff to help decorate your tower. Just turn up with some cool ideas to start making. See you there!

Jack Wu | Dandelion Minds 
12 October, 5-9pm | 13 October, 9am-9pm | 14 October, 9am-5pm | 15 October, 9am-3pm

Collectively painted flora will gradually grant this mural its garden, advocating for an involved knowledge as it reconnects with the environment it aims to shape, a living archive. Flowers from the soil, the murals surface serves as a context for diverse identities and reveals the necessity to acknowledge and learn from each other, enabling us to cultivate resiliently.

Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri and Philip Lee | Making Site 
12 October, 5-9pm | 13 October, 9am-9pm | 14 October, 9am-5pm | 15 October, 9am-3pm

Public spaces are made by those who use them, and Late Night Art offers us the opportunity to use Auckland’s streets in extraordinary ways. This installation will invite visitors to imagine possibilities for the city’s shared space through modelmaking, with the surrounding neighbourhood as our collective resource.

Dian Wang | 70x45 
12 October , 5-9pm

The project is an homage and mockery of what an Asian-Kiwi arch might look like. Mostly made from 70x45 timber battens essential to the typical Kiwi home, combined with the aesthetic of the dougong resulting in a kitsch hybridised form. The installation ridicules the scale, tectonic, and ornament of the typical Chinatown arch, and poses the question: where exactly is Auckland’s Chinatown? The absence of a recognisable Chinatown in NZ has meant that Chinese have quietly assimilated into Kiwi culture behind closed doors. Practicing cultural traditions and preserving them over the past 160 years. It welcomes the public to make marks, draw and interact with it.

Auckland Architecture School second year students | Papakainga Housing
12 October , 5-9pm

Te Pare Auckland Architecture School second year students have a selection of Papakainga housing for Ngati Awa on display to share with the public. Come along for a korero with some of the students to see some radical proposals for the future of papakainga housing. 

Part of ArtWeek in the City Centre 2023.

Park for $2 per hour, to a maximum of $10 on evenings and weekends at the Victoria St car park. Find out more.

Last updated: 30 July 2019