What is an appropriate monument for the current city of
Philadelphia? That was the question posed by the curators, artists,
scholars, and students who comprise the Philadelphia-based public
art and history studio Monument Lab. And in 2017, along with Mural
Arts Philadelphia, they produced and organized a groundbreaking,
city-wide exhibition of temporary, site-specific works that engaged
directly with the community. The installations, by a cohort of
diverse artists considering issues of identity, appeared in iconic
public squares and neighborhood parks with research and learning
labs and prototype monuments. Monument Lab is a fabulous compendium
of the exhibition and a critical reflection of the proceedings,
including contributions from interlocutors and collaborators. The
exhibition and this handbook were designed to generate new ways of
thinking about monuments and public art as well as to find new,
critical perspectives to reflect on the monuments we have inherited
and to imagine those we have yet to build. Monument Lab energizes
acivic dialogue about place and history as forces for a deeper
questioning of what it means to be Philadelphian in a time of
renewal and continuing struggle. Contributors: Alexander Alberro,
Alliyah Allen, Laurie Allen, Andrew Friedman, Justin Geller,
Kristen Giannantonio, Jane Golden, Aviva Kapust, Fariah Khan, Homay
King, Stephanie Mach, Trapeta B. Mayson, Nathaniel Popkin, Ursula
Rucker, Jodi Throckmorton, Salamishah Tillet, Jennifer Harford
Vargas, Naomi Waltham-Smith, Bethany Wiggin, Mariam I. Williams,
Leslie Willis-Lowry, and the editors. Artists: Tania Bruguera, Mel
Chin, Kara Crombie, Tyree Guyton, Hans Haacke, David Hartt, Sharon
Hayes, King Britt and Joshua Mays, Klip Collective, Duane
Linklater, Emeka Ogboh, Karyn Olivier, Michelle Angela Ortiz,
Kaitlin Pomerantz, RAIR, Alexander Rosenberg, Jamel Shabazz, Hank
Willis Thomas, Shira Walinsky and Southeast by Southeast, and
Marisa Williamson.
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