In Nicaragua, ghost monuments summon traces of collective memories that have been repressed by totalitarian governments.
Oscar M. Caballero experiments with digital methods to preserve civic monuments under Daniel Ortega's regime, which has quickened the pace of censoring media and destroying memories in the public sphere.
As the Semi-quincentennial of the American Revolution quickly approaches, what might Philadelphians learn from the 40,000-person parade that snaked through the streets of working-class North Philly on July 4th, 1976—a “people’s Bicentennial”—about the stakes of liberation?
How do aging communities keep memories as their neighborhoods rapidly change?
As Berlin continues to face redevelopment, artist R Stein Wexler and neighborhood resident Kathrin Gerlof discuss their participation in a community-engaged remembrance process that aimed to illuminate invisible Nazi histories and the stakes of memory-keeping as communities begin to age.
Through vernacular photography, Dorcas Tang explores networks of belonging and memory-keeping across the Chinese diaspora. By focusing on the histories of the Asociación China de Puntarenas in Puerto Rico, Tang reflects on the inconsistencies, ruptures, and interruptions in memory work.
Through speculative storytelling, artist Mercedes Dorame (Gabrielino-Tongva) explores the politics and poetics of moving through Indigenous spaces, timescales, and ways of knowing—thus reclaiming material and narrative relationships to Tovaangar landscapes.