Cover: 1300 ans Bulgarie, 1981. Sculptor: Valentin Startchev. Architects: Alexandre Barov, Atanas Agoura, Vladimir Romenski, Alexandre Branov. Photo: Personal Archives of Valentin Startchev (1986).
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Current Issue
46, no. 2 (Fall 2021) "Revised Commemoration" in Public Art: What Future for the Monument? Guest editors Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Marie-Blanche Fourcade Editors' Note Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Marie-Blanche Fourcade | Introduction I. APPROACHING THE MONUMENT Ina Belcheva | Palimpsestes mémoriels : démantèlements et résurgences de deux monuments en Bulgarie postsocialiste Raino Isto | “Weak Monumentality”: Contemporary Art, Reparative Action, and Postsocialist Conditions Nina Sanadze | PORTFOLIO |
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II. COMMEMORATION 2.0: UPDATES
Adrian Anagnost | Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment: Site, Time, Embodiment COMMENTARY Analays Alvarez Hernandez | The Life and Death of the Monument in the Era of Social Networks: New Communities of Memory PRACTICES Brandon Vickerd | Monumental Remix: Subverting the Monument in Canada’s Public Spaces Noémie McComber | PORTFOLIO III. MORAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC ART: AN ASSESSMENT François Le Moine | La loi, la statue et l’artiste : L’apport du droit moral aux débats sur la commémoration |
Documentation of Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community performance initiated by Dread Scott outside New Orleans, November 8, 2019. Photo courtesy the artist and Antenna Works.
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Noémi McComber, Nouveaux drapeaux pour vieux monuments, urban intervention and photo series, Dare-Dare, Montreal, 2011.
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Thematic Reviews
Cameron Cartiere | Sierra Rooney, Jennifer Wingate, and Harriet F. Senie, eds., Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy Rodrigo D’Alcântara | Ana Lucia Araujo, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past Julie Deschepper | Federico Bellentani, The Meanings of the Built Environment: A Semiotic and Geographical Approach to Monuments in the Post-Soviet Era Felicia F. Leu | Fred Evans, Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics Varda Nisar | Sabine Marschall, ed., Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments Laurent Vernet | Entrepreneurs du commun, Monuments aux victimes de la liberté; Paul M. Faber et Ken Lum (dir.), Monument Lab. Creative Speculations for Philadelphia |
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