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The Monument Lab Bulletin is a collaborative platform for critically reading and reimagining monuments. We invite contributors who are deeply committed to changing the way we study, build, and interpret monuments. We welcome contributions from artists, students, scholars, activists, municipal agencies, and cultural institutions. Learn how to contribute
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A Boxcar on East 4th Street

A rusty red boxcar in Waterloo, Iowa once symbolized the promise to preserve and commemorate Black history. Now, it conjures the memories of racial and economic inequalities that persistently haunt the small American city. 

 

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Where We Are Headed
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A Stage for Aiyyana

Gender Mobius is Aiyyana Maracle's performance monument that narrates the artist's journey to Indigenous womanhood. 

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Circles and Squares

The Everyday Life of Memorials by Andrew Shanken explores the meanings memorials and monuments make in quotidian contexts. 

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Announcing Commissioned ARCH Artist
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American Meridians: The Federal City at the Center of the World

Although the Washington Meridians project represented ambitions on the scale of empire, it only corresponded locally, in the United States's capital city. The project reveals the clumsy nature of a young nation's will to ordering time and expanding territory, as well as the error-prone desire for world-making that accompanied the genocidal logic of manifest destiny.  

 

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