reuben moss /works/monuments

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.