reuben moss /works/finding the toilets

      Name                          Created            Description
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      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand    
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          
      finding the toilets>          oct 09      -      Image, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand          



Finding the Toilets Mar 10


Finding the Toilets was a performance which took place in the Octagon on the 4'th of March 2010. With the help of 
a surveying company and archival plans I located and marked above ground, the location of an 
underground public toilet which had been filled in, in 1989. The outline of the toilet 
remained in place for several weeks until it was eventually removed by street cleaners. 
The Octagon is the central civic space of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, it was redeveloped in 1989.
During the redevlopment the toilets were filled in, much of the fittings and original tile work 
remained in place. The redevelopment was the result of a rationalization of public space which began in New 
Zealand during the 1980's; the paradigms of which followed particularly refined Modernist logic.  The toilets 
especially were the target of this redevelopment as they had purportedly become the location 
of what was considered anti social behavior. The toilets had been installed in 1910 with the idea that 
public toilets were best kept underground, out of site and out of mind.