Monument - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Ludo Groen, Nikolaus Hirsch, Dr. Marina Otero Verzier

Contributors Mabel O. Wilson, Valentina Rozas-Krause, Dima Srouji, Robert Jan van Pelt, Manuel Correa, Quinsy Gario, The Black Archives, Milica Tomić, Sarmen Beglarian, Vasyl Cherepanyn, and more…

From the toppling and removal of statues to ongoing debates on contested objects, buildings, and landscapes, monuments have—once again—come to play a pivotal role in mobilizing and rearticulating struggles for recognition. Inherent to the design and construction of monuments are wider processes and structures of memorialization that reify social configurations.

Monument is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Het Nieuwe Instituut. It is complemented by a series of online screenings and conversations that took place as part of Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Thursday Night Live! program. Please visit Het Nieuwe Instituut’s website to rewatch the online screenings.

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13 essays

Building a National House

Philipp Oswalt

Since the 1980s, a number of buildings have been reconstructed in Germany that are intended to contribute to the formation of German identity. While t...

The Architect of Destruction

Arna Mačkić

The Perpetrator On November 29, 2017, I was in Rotterdam, having a meeting in a café, when I received a text message from my mother. I’d been nervo...

Footnotes to Monuments

Sumayya Vally

Antagonisms of Memory in Post-Maidan Kyiv

Sarmen Beglarian and Vasyl Cherepanyn

Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence

Milica Tomić

Building Our Monuments

The Black Archives

How to See the Spots of Der Leopard

Quinsy Gario

Four Hundred Unquiet Graves

Manuel Correa

Auschwitz and the Architecture of the Reversed Gaze

Robert Jan van Pelt

And we, Spectators, always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It overfills us. We arrange it, It falls apart. We rearrange it, an...

Sebastia

Dima Srouji

Memorials and the Cult of Apology

Valentina Rozas-Krause

On a gloomy winter day of 1970, Willy Brandt, the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic (1969–1974) stepped out of his car and slowly walked towar...

Bulletproofing American History

Mabel O. Wilson

In October 2019, along a dusty stretch of a back road in northwestern Mississippi, workmen and activists installed a historical marker, the fourth one...

Editorial

Dr. Marina Otero Verzier, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ludo Groen, and Nick Axel

Monument is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Het Nieuwe Instituut, featuring essays by Arna Mačkić, Wayne Modest, Philipp Oswalt, Jorge...

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Monuments, Memory, Violence, White Supremacy, Death

Monument is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

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Philipp Oswalt Building a National House
Arna Mačkić The Architect of Destruction
Sumayya Vally Footnotes to Monuments
Sarmen Beglarian and Vasyl Cherepanyn Antagonisms of Memory in Post-Maidan Kyiv
Milica Tomić Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence
The Black Archives Building Our Monuments
Quinsy Gario How to See the Spots of Der Leopard
Manuel Correa Four Hundred Unquiet Graves
Robert Jan van Pelt Auschwitz and the Architecture of the Reversed Gaze
Dima Srouji Sebastia
Valentina Rozas-Krause Memorials and the Cult of Apology
Mabel O. Wilson Bulletproofing American History
Dr. Marina Otero Verzier, Nikolaus Hirsch and Nick Axel Editorial

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