monuments

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10

The George Floyd Hologram: Between Memorial, Media, and Market

Drawing on the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project, Clara Podlesnigg examines how luminous projections transformed sites of white supremacy into spaces of counter-narrative and spectacle. While the hologram elevated Floyd’s image into a racial icon, it also exposed the problematic convergence of commemoration, commodification, and the erasure of Black life in public space.
no. 4, Trends, vol. 2

Public Feeling: Rethinking Memorials and Monuments

Beyond acting as lightning rod for continued social and political divisions today, might there also be other cultural shifts related to monuments and memorials in public space at play? Recent literature on the contemporary memorial landscape from the field of art history engages with the shifting terrain of public feeling and performative utterances in the increasingly mediated contemporary city, analyzing both its pitfalls and its strengths in countering the presumed monolithic power of the monument.