New Monuments: Iconoclasm, Reenactments, and Alternative Commemorations in the United States since 2000
15–16 March 2024, l’INHA (Institut national d’histoire de l’art), 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France
DAY 1, Friday, March 15
9:15 – Welcome (Terra Foundation for American Art)
9:30-10:15 – Opening remarks: Professor Mechtild Widrich (School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Short break
10:30-12:00 – PANEL 1: Old Stories, New Narratives
• Noah Randolph – Taking Up Space: Refusing the Logics of Monumentality in New Orleans
• Susan Garza – How Do We Honor Struggle in Plantation Spaces?
• Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders – The Contested Civil War Sesquicentennial: An incomplete recognition of Black Civil War Memory in “Post-Racial” America
12:00-13:30 – Lunch break
13:30-15:00 – PANEL 2: Iconoclasm and Institutions
• Clémentine Tholas – From the Jim Crow South to Los Angeles: Reusing decommissioned Confederate monuments in a contemporary art exhibition
• Clare Fisher – Place Ma(r)king: Campus Contextualization and New Concepts of the Monument
• Laura Macalauso – Mending Broken Glass: New Monuments in New Haven
Short break
15:15-16:45 – PANEL 3: Iconoclasm and Community Building
• Alison Fields – Remembering Spanish Colonization in New Mexico
• Leena Crasemann and Anne Rohl – Meshing Southern myths and covering “discoverers”: Textile interventions in processes of decolonizing monuments since 2017
• Hilary Sanders – The aspirational politics of commemorating Chinese heritage in Portland, Oregon
Short break
17:00-18:00 – Keynote: Professor Wendy Bellion (University of Delaware)
18:30 – Dinner for speakers
DAY 2, Saturday, March 16
9:15 – Welcome
9:30-11:00 – PANEL 1: Reconsidering Memorials
• Hilary Meuter – Iconoclasm and counter-monuments, only the start of a larger endeavor: A Study of the Contradictory Monument Landscape in Montgomery, Alabama
• Jo-Ann Morgan – Memorials Protesting Gun Violence
• Harriet Senie and Cher Krause Knight – Writing Memorials
Short break
11:15-12:45 – PANEL 2: Cityscapes
• Heather Shirey and Todd Lawrence – Monumental Blackness: Black Lives Matter Street Murals and
Commemoration of the 2020 Uprising
• Erika Schneider – From Emancipation to Embrace: Decolonizing Boston’s Public Monuments
• Sarah J. Moore – Slow Death in Trees: Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, 2021
12:45-14:15 – Lunch break
14:15-15:45 – PANEL 3: Pedagogy and Practice
• Peter Cole – Public Art in Remembering Chicago’s Worst Episode of Racial Violence
• Lauren Erin Brown – Monumental Debates: Reimagining Public History in Turbulent Times
• Francis V. Gourrier Jr. – Memorializing Lynching in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Short break
16:00-17:00 – Keynote: Professor Erika Doss (University of Texas at Dallas)
Short break
17:15-19:15 – Film session (Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein)
FILMS SESSION:
• Stonebreakers (dir. Valerio Ciriaci, 2022; 70’, USA/Italy)
• Short film by Monument Lab
• Artists’ videos and short films
Informations complémentaires: https://fondationupn.fr/events/new-monuments-inconoclasm-reenactments-and-alternative-commemorations-in-the-united-states-since-2000/
Source: Clémentine THOLAS <clementine.tholas>
