reuben moss /works/monuments

      Name                          Created            Description
      Parent Directory                          -   
      monuments, slide>             oct 09      -      Image, Round about,  Wharf & Ward st, Dunedin, New Zealand 
      monuments, slide>             oct 09      -      Image, Round about,  Wharf & Ward st, Dunedin, New Zealand  
      monuments, slide>             oct 09      -      Image, Round about,  Wharf & Ward st, Dunedin, New Zealand  
      monuments, slide>             oct 09      -      Image, Round about,  Wharf & Ward st, Dunedin, New Zealand  
      monuments, seesaw>            oct 09      -      Image, Crawford st Carpark, Dunedin, New Zealand       
      monuments, seesaw>            oct 09      -      Image, Crawford st Carpark, Dunedin, New Zealand       
      monuments, seesaw>            oct 09      -      Image, Crawford st Carpark, Dunedin, New Zealand       
      monuments, seesaw>            oct 09      -      Image, Crawford st Carpark, Dunedin, New Zealand       
      monuments, swing>             nov 09      -      Image, High st, Dunedin, New Zealand Zealand       
      monuments, swing>             nov 09      -      Image, High st, Dunedin, New Zealand Zealand       
      monuments, swing>             nov 09      -      Image, High st, Dunedin, New Zealand Zealand             
      article from O.D.T.>          nov 09      -      Image, newspaper article        
     
  
	
   
Monuments  Oct/Nov 09 

Monuments was a series of three public installations which took place without permission, around 
Dunedin, New Zealand between October and November 2009. Three spaces were selected, a 
round-about, a carpark and the site of a demolished building. Three pieces of children's 
playground equipment were restored and modified as necessary, a slide, a seesaw and a swing.
The first installation was the slide into the round about between Wharf and Ward streets, 
Dunedin. The slide was installed during the afternoon, but before the concrete had time time to 
set the slide was removed and carried across the road to a skate park where it remained until 
it was removed by the city council the following afternoon.
The second installation was the seesaw into the Crawford street carpark, Dunedin. The Seesaw 
remained in place for three days before it was removed by the city council by which time it had 
attracted a large amount of media attention. 
The final installation was the swing into the empty lot on High street, Dunedin. Where a 
building, which had been the first location of the artist run space Blue Oyster Gallery as well 
as New Zealand's first radio station, was demolished to make way for a parking building. The 
swing remained in place until January, when it was eventually removed by construction workers to 
make way for the new building.