Monument - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Ludo Groen, Nikolaus Hirsch, 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, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Sarmen Beglarian, 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 ne…

Footnotes to Monuments

Sumayya Vally

Searching for forms and histories in the architectures of diaspora, migration, and the overlooked, we may find possibilities for forms of representati…

Antagonisms of Memory in Post-Maidan Kyiv

Vasyl Cherepanyn and Sarmen Beglarian

After the Maidan revolution and Russian military occupation of Ukraine in 2014, the realm of memory has been occupied by militarism and political reac…

Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence

Milica Tomić

We know that narratives are made of silences, not all of which are deliberate or even perceptible as such within the time of their production. We al…

Building Our Monuments

The Black Archives

The Black Archives is an Amsterdam-based historical archive for conversations, activities, and literature from Black and other perspectives that are o…

How to See the Spots of Der Leopard

Quinsy Gario

In the seventeenth century, Duke Jacob Kettler of the Duchy of Courland, a Polish-Lithuanian vasal state in an area that is today western Latvia, comm…

Four Hundred Unquiet Graves

Manuel Correa

El Valle de los Caídos, sixty kilometers outside of Madrid, houses a colossal basilica and an eighty-meter-high cross that towers over the highway. T…

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

Sebastia, a small archaeological town, sits on top of a hill Northwest of Nablus, Palestine surrounded by Shavei Shomron, an illegal Israeli settlemen…

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 tow…

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

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

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

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

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