LAST SUNDAYS: UNSPACE aims to highlight new ways of navigating everyday public spaces, and to redirect attention to deeper and quietly present (physical and conceptual) layers of urban landscapes. Provided with a set of open ‘guidelines’, participants are invited to explore the spatial potentials of Miami. The performative and practical nature of the exercise encourages participants to consider how their behaviours are shaped by the ‘rules’ and systems at play in public spaces. Using the guidelines and your direct responses, you are invited to freely reimagine how these everyday systems might be reshaped simply by choosing to use public space in a way true to one’s own desires. This way of navigating is a way of reclaiming the urban environment and revealing new ways to experience and understand public space.

Please use common sense during this activity and be aware of your surroundings. Take care not to damage private property and to maintain social distancing where relevant. 

THE GUIDELINES
Take nothing but earphones, your everyday digital device, comfortable shoes and water.
You can change direction or finish at any point.
Complete alone or with others.
Choose one link below to navigate to a surprise destination in MIAMI. 

LOCATION 1 – BEHIND DOMINOS

LOCATION 2 – STAY OUTSIDE THE FENCE

LOCATION 3 – BETWEEN FENCES 

1. Navigate to the pin on the map, but avoid walking on the designated footpath. 
2. Document the utilities on your journey (these include water meters/valves, sewage or electrical manholes, NBN manholes, traffic boxes or other maintenance sites). 
3. Take a photo of every chair and traffic cone you see.
4. If you see a small rock or piece of concrete, collect it and carry it with you. Place it on the next utility you see. 
5. When you reach your destination, mark your arrival 
6. Wave to every security camera or surveillance camera you pass. 
7. When ready, return to your starting point but take care not to follow the route you came. 
8. Record the wheelie bin serial numbers (on the side of every bin) of each bin you pass. 
9. Upload a selection of your photos to the SHARED ARCHIVE.

THE WALLS and LAURIE OXENFORD take no responsibility for your actions.

The artist would like to acknowledge Country and the Yugambeh language peoples who are the traditional custodians of the land on which she lives, creates and works, and to pay respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. In facilitating this activity, the artist understands that urban space and urban development is the continuation of colonisation. 

SOVEREIGNTY WAS NEVER CEDED – ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE. 

LAURIE OXENFORD completed Bachelor of Creative Arts (Spatial Construction) at the University of Southern Queensland before being awarded the Bellmaine French Appreciation Travelling Scholarship (2018). She then completed a Professional Attachment with the City of Gold Coast (2019) and Art-Work Agency. Laurie exhibited her fourth solo exhibition ‘Implied’ at The Third Quarter Gallery, Brisbane (2020) and was recently commissioned by the Home of the Arts (HOTA), Gold Coast to realise a site-specific wall painting. She is currently working as the Public Art Officer at Art-Work Agency and was previously the Lead Curator at First Coat Studios, Toowoomba (2018-19). Laurie is a part of the Generate GC program and works as a producer with Murals for Change.