Public Art + Public Memory + Site Specificity

MORE RADICAL/COUNTER-MAPPING/COMMUNITY-MAPPING

examples from The Laundromat Project’s event
Radical Mapping: Making Meaning in Our Communities
panel: The Self-Determined Society, archived here, along with the other panels.

Steve DeRoy – The Firelight Group – Indigenous Mapping Workshop

Sadra Shahab – Pratt Center for Community Development

Armando Sullivan – BLACKSPACE – blackspace.org

ACTIONS IN PLACE, BETWEEN ART AND ACTIVISM

[examples from the TJ Demos reading… +]

Photographer Nan Goldin starts activist group Sackler PAIN

https://www.sacklerpain.org/

PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers

ART IN CIVIC/PUBLIC SPACE / PUBLIC MEMORY

Some Monuments

Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (2021, in Madison Square park)

https://madisonsquarepark.org/art/exhibitions/maya-lin-ghost-forest/

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial (1982, on the Mall in DC)
on wikipedia

Chris Burden’s The Other Vietnam Memorial (1991)

Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War (2020)
in Times Square
in its more permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Monument Lab
https://monumentlab.com/
Monument Lab is a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. Monument Lab works with artists, students, educators, activists, municipal agencies, and cultural institutions on participatory approaches to public engagement and collective memory. Founded by Paul Farber and Ken Lum in 2012, Monument Lab cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

Public Sculpture/Civic Space

The Trial of Tilted Arc, Paper Tiger Television – on the removal of Richard Serra’s public sculpture Tilted Arc from Federal Plaza