Read a text by art historian Miwon Kwon on site-specific art and "locational identity." Post a response to Tumblr, taking into consideration the following questions:
How do ideas of identity and site merge to form what we think of as "place"?
Are there examples of a site in which you belonged (in your own estimation) that was altered in some way that caused you to feel excluded or rejected?
Or, how about a site where its community changes over some period of time?
Have you ever participated in an intervention in, or defense of, a site?
There are also links to three additional recent articles from news sources that address monuments and the more recent contemporary moment. You should give those a look over:
Gary Shapiro's "The Meaning of Our Confederate ‘Monuments’" (on distinctions between memorials and monuments)
A transcript of the mayor of New Orleans on the removal of Confederate monuments
David Graham's The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments
Are there examples of a site in which you belonged (in your own estimation) that was altered in some way that caused you to feel excluded or rejected?
Or, how about a site where its community changes over some period of time?
Have you ever participated in an intervention in, or defense of, a site?
There are also links to three additional recent articles from news sources that address monuments and the more recent contemporary moment. You should give those a look over:
Gary Shapiro's "The Meaning of Our Confederate ‘Monuments’" (on distinctions between memorials and monuments)
A transcript of the mayor of New Orleans on the removal of Confederate monuments
David Graham's The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments
