Goodnight Kiwi by Victoria Kelly

In the days when there were only two television channels in NZ, being up late enough to see the 'Goodnight Kiwi' signal the end of transmission was a rare and exciting event.

I'd lie awake for hours thinking about the Kiwi shutting down the power and climbing up to sleep in the sky.

The mixture of innocence, nostalgia and finality embodied by that animation is an emotional landscape, unique to childhood in 1970's New Zealand.

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Commissioned with funding from Creative New Zealand, this work is part of Stephen de Pledge's Landscape Prelude project. All 12 works in this series were performed for the first time at the New Zealand International Arts Festival on 27 February 2008.

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Music

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