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Pride Square

Pride Square
Pride Square, Bedford Street, Newtown NSW, Australia

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abstract

Collection · 5 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items

senses

Collection · 21 items
Sub-collection

Walking Art

Sub-collection · 99 items

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video

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Walking piece
Pride Square, 2026 is a series of 12 small drawings on paper made late at night while sitting under a tree in a public space in Newtown, Sydney (Australia).

Pride Square and the adjoining Pride Centre celebrate the diversity of our LGBTQIA+ community in Newtown (Gadigal) Sydney. Residents and visitors traverse Pride Square, going to and from the train station, bus stops, and the shops. The Square is frequented by buskers, services providing food for people in need, fund-raisers soliciting donations for charities and people hoping for donations to sustain themselves. There are political protests with crowds carrying banners and shouting into megaphones. Emergency Services vehicles drive through the Square, often with lights and sirens, on their way to King Street. People take a seat to watch the world go by, from early in the morning until late at night, relaxing and talking to others with time to spare. I made these small drawings on paper sitting under a tree late at night hoping to capture a small fragment of the happenings and atmosphere of Pride Square.

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Hunt, M. (2026). Pride Square. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/pride-square/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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