The Land Under the Plinth
The Land Under the Plinth will recover the spaces on which monuments to colonial figures once stood and dedicate an emergent place for engagement with the Tongva community and City of Los Angeles, including a learning center, research opportunities, and new markers to uplift visions for how L.A.’s First Peoples want to project themselves into the future of this metropolis.
Team members include: Joel Garcia, Mercedes Dorame, River Garza, Kimberly Morales-Johnson, and Samantha Morales-Johnson.
Photo by Kenneth Lopez
Re:Generation
Monument Lab is excited to announce Re:Generation – a nationwide participatory public art and history project launching in Spring 2022. The goal: to elevate the next generation of monuments that reckons with and reimagines public memory. The project subgrants a total of $1 Million across ten local field offices led by collaborative teams of artists, educators, storytellers, and organizers; each working on a commemorative campaign rooted in the living history of a neighborhood, city, or region. Monument Lab’s Re:Generation opens across the country from May Day–Labor Day 2022. Re:Generation is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project.
The announcement of the ten selected teams and projects offers a roadmap for a project focused on the future of public memory in this country. Re:Generation calls for expanded platforms and models of commemoration, acknowledgment, justice, and belonging. The cohort of teams’ projects is part of a much larger and still growing community of memory workers who explores how history lives with us everyday to celebrate commemoration by elevating stories embedded within communities that foster repair and healing.
To learn more about the other nine teams please visit Monument Lab’s website.
