Fugitive Structures: Owner Occupy

In their artist statement, Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline describe a new state of terra nullius,

"where a new order has proclaimed that existing land ownership is suddenly rendered null and void. In this brave new world, the answer to housing affordability is to wipe the slate clean and start again." - Sam Spurr

The ‘dwelling machines’ created for Owner Occupy allow visitors to stake their own space in the gallery

However, they are only entitled to this space while their structure is occupied.

The creators Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline work across architecture, installation, social process art and situated public art. They make site-specific devices, discursive machines and social infrastructures.

The form their work takes depends on its context, and has so far included: personalised vehicles, adaptable shelters, handmade maps, soluble animals, edible cities, a story-collecting tea cart and a galvanised-steel park shelter that can predict the weather.

These devices actively engage people to question, understand and act upon the built and political structures which frame our lives.