#monument lab

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Images by: Jesse Duquette / The Daily Don ⇨ Mark Alice Durant ⇨ Muna Malik ⇨ Kamrooz Aram and ⇨ Ken Lum and Paul Farber / Monument Lab  for Plany Your Vote and Vote.org 

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On “Monument Lab” | Art21 Magazine

Artist and co-curator of \'Monument Lab\' Ken Lum shares the findings of this public engagement project, which served as a participatory exercise in spatial production, and questioned the role of monuments and public art in civic spaces.

About the project “Monument Lab”, run by Ken Lum and Paul Farber in Philadelphia.

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F-stop Matters … *** 'In Perpetuity’ by Duane Linklater

Philadelphia _ Fall 2019

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All Power to All People, by Hank Willis Thomas, as part of Monument Lab. 

Situated across from Philadelphia City Hall on Thomas Paine Plaza, Hank Willis Thomas’ All Power to All People is a public art intervention around identity and representation in Philadelphia. Thomas’ Afro pick sculpture stands at eight feet tall and weighs close to 800 pounds. The Afro pick, as Thomas notes, “exists today as many things to different people: it is worn as adornment, a political emblem, and signature of collective identity. The Afro pick continues to develop itself as a testament to innovation.” The temporary monument is placed here as a symbol and site, as the artist adds, “to highlight ideas related to community, strength, perseverance, comradeship, and resistance to oppression.” [Source]

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stoops n steps Sept 17, 2017

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Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia Recap and DesignPhiladelphia Exhibition

In Spring 2015, Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia – a team of curators, scholars, students, and artists – organized a public art and historical research project at Philadelphia’s City Hall. The project asked Philadelphians a central guiding question: What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia? Over 35,000 engaged with the project at the essential civic crossroads of the city, the courtyard of City Hall. Take a look at this new video trailer to revisit Monument Lab!

See all 455 public monument proposals at the Monument Lab exhibition at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture from October 8-16 during DesignPhiladelphia. 

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Monument Lab Artist Talk + Monument Proposal

Tomorrow (Weds), 6pm at Pafa Historic Building! 

https://www.pafa.org/museum-course/monument-lab-lecture-we-weeds-and-alexander-rosenberg

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NEXT WEDNESDAY (MAY 20th!)

Come hear Kaitlin Pomerantz present WE THE WEEDS’ proposal for a public monument to the City of Philadelphia-- a vacant lot to be installed in Washington Square Park! Presentation will feature an overview of past work by WE THE WEEDS, the history of Philadelphia’s Washington Square Park, a quick look at inspiring monuments throughout art history, and a discussion of the proposed monument, vacant lots, ruderal plants, urban renewal and developement! A lively set of topics followed by a lively Q + A. 

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