SXSW 2023
Monumental Change: Healing Through Public Art
Description:
Grappling with complex and forgotten histories, communities across America are reflecting on the monuments they’ve inherited and questioning whom and what to commemorate in public art yet to be built. Counterpublic, a collection of 30 ephemeral and permanent installations that weave public art into the daily life of St. Louis, reflects one city’s journey to determine how its history is told, held, and healed, and how its future is collectively envisioned.
Interdisciplinary artists, a storyteller, and a curator share their experiences of the year-long process of reparative community engagement, how it shaped the themes of activism, displacement, segregation, and repatriation and resulted in a 6-mile-long exhibition that enlarges public understanding and participation.
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Takeaways
- Why cities and communities are facilitating conversations about the past, present and future of public monuments.
- How monuments are evolving from the immovable and untouchable forms of the past and taking on more dynamic forms that better engage their community.
- How a process that disrupts the status quo of how monuments are made, preserved and interpreted contributes to community joy, regeneration, and repair
Speakers
- James McAnally, Executive + Artistic Director, Counterpublic
- Cheeraz Gormon, Community Strategist, Counterpublic
- Allison Glenn, Senior Curator, Public Art Fund
- Jordan Weber, Loeb Fellow, Harvard University
Organizer
James McAnally, Executive + Artistic Director, Counterpublic
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