Monument Lab : creative speculations for Philadelphia / edited by Paul M. Farber and Ken Lum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farber, Paul M., 1982- editor.

Lum, Ken, 1956- editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monument Lab (Art studio).

Monuments--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Monuments.

Memorials--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Memorials.

Art and society--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--21st century.

Art and society.

History.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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 a civic 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."-- Provided by publisher.

How to Build a Monument / Paul M. Farber -- Memorializing Philadelphia as a Place of Crisis and Boundless Hope / Ken Lum -- Public Practice / Jane Golden -- Tania Bruguera, Monument to New Immigrants -- Mel Chin, Two Me -- Kara Crombie, Sample Philly -- The Art of the Proposal : Reading the Monument Lab Open Data Set / Laurie Allen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781439916063

1439916063

OCLC:

1088600219

Publisher Number:

40029652941