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2022.02.23

Cambridge College LECTURE: TOPPLED MONUMENTS ARCHIVE

TMA Founder Jillian McManemin talks about TMA’s origins, values and present/future projects. Click here for the zoom recording of the event.

Toppled Monuments Archive Erica Doss Jillian McManemin Marco Godoy Luisa Marinho Jorge Santana Ali Spechler International Sculpture Center

2021.11.11

International Sculpture Center presents: Toppled Monuments Archive: Bearing Witness

Moderated by Erika Doss, panelists from the Toppled Monuments Archive Collective will discuss their archival and artistic practices and pushing back against traditional preservation conventions to center revolutionary acts. Borrowing from contemporary performance art theory, monuments are considered as vehicles for action. This panel focuses on the actions, events and performances taking place around monuments with examples in the United States, Brazil, Chile, and Germany.

2021.09.23

TMA INTRODUCTION SESSION HOSTED BY CONVERGE 45 in conjunction with the exhibition, prototypes.

2021.09.23

Monument Lab, Archiving Towards Liberation: The Toppled Monuments Archive Collective

This essay in the “Changing Monument Landscape” series was commissioned as part of the launch for the National Monument Audit, produced by Monument Lab in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

By Jillian McManemin on behalf of the Toppled Monuments Archive Collective.

National Monument Audit. Monument Lab. Toppled Monuments Archive.

2021.09.16

monument Lab, national monument audit

Monument Lab’s research team spent a year scouring almost a half million records of historic properties created and maintained by federal, state, local, tribal, institutional, and publicly assembled sources. For our deepest investigations, we focused on a study set of approximately 50,000 conventional monuments representing data collected from every US state and territory. The National Monument Audit allows us to better understand the dynamics and trends that have shaped our monument landscape, to pose questions about common knowledge about monuments, and to debunk falsehoods and misperceptions within public memory. The National Monument Audit is meant to inform Mellon’s landmark Monuments Project, a $250 million investment designed to “transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces and ensure that future generations inherit a commemorative landscape that venerates and reflects the vast, rich complexity of the American story.”

Fall 2021

TRIPWIRE JOURNAL #18: Archive Fervor

TMA published our ‘Basic Principles’ in Tripwire Journal’s Issue #18.

2021.08.25 - 2021.10.09

Prototypes exhibition, CONVERGE 45

Prototypes is a group exhibition conceived in tandem with the Portland’s Monuments & Memorials Project.

August - September 2021

THINKING THROUGH MONUMENTS: UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO ART GALLERIES

Thinking through Monuments is a series of video essays that explore what, who, where, when, and why of monuments through interviews with twelve interlocutors

This project presents five episodes, each offering a constellation of questions that contend with the place and meaning of monuments in our landscapes. The topics build on one another and shape a multidimensional perspective of monuments as objects, symbols, sites, as well as agents of history and instigators of contemporary conversations. We draw on the work of artists, curators, organizers, scholars, and teachers around us who urge us to look in-depth and with care, and offer myriad ways for us to think through monuments.

Thinking Through Monuments is organized by Liz Park, Curator, and Emily Reynolds, Marketing and Communications Manager, with UB graduate students Maria Barrientos and Eric Huk. Resource Guides are prepared by Eric Huk. Special thanks to the project interlocutors: Sean Anderson, Sara Capen, Charles Davis II, Paul Farber, Cecil Foster, Heather Hart, Candice Hopkins, Jillian McManemin, Karyn Olivier, Dawit Petros, Henry Louis Taylor, and Lillian Williams.

Summer / Fall 2021

The Latinx Project, NYU, Public Humanities Fellowship

10 graduate students from NYU & the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium will be collaborating respectively with El Museo del Barrio, El Clemente Soto Velez Center, Pregones/PRTT, Lazos, Mil Mundos, Toppled Monuments Archive, La Mixteca Org, and Museo de Los Sures.

TMA’s fellow, Luisa Marinho, is an artist & scholar from Rio de Janeiro and Ph.D. student at the Spanish & Portuguese Department at NYU. She is spearheading a collaboration between the Galeria de Racistas, a project by the Coletivo Negro de Historiadores Tereza de Benguela in Brazil and the Toppled Monuments Archive.

We will be adding their pre-existing research to the archive, linking their project, and highlighting their work to get these monuments removed.

Fall / Winter 2020

ART PAPERS, Monumental Collapse: Toppled Statues and Reimagining Archives

Jillian McManemin and Che Gossett discuss TMA's inception, the morality of uploading content of protestors and how to circumvent the discovery of their identities, and the intersection between art and activism today.

Conversation | Che Gossett + Jillian McManemin

2020.09.21

HYPERALLERGIC, Let’s Preserve Acts of History, Not Racist Monuments

In her op ed, TMA Founder, looks into the new trend of relocating toppled monuments, the beginnings of TMA, and the pitfalls of preservation.

By Jillian McManemin