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Titel:The twenty-first-century monuments
reflections on nomadic and intermedial monumentality
Weiterer Titel:The 21st-century monuments
Von: Mara-Johanna Kölmel
Person: Kölmel, Mara-Johanna
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Hauptverfasser: Kölmel, Mara-Johanna (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [2023]
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Abstract:Since the nineteenth century, the concept of the monument has undergone a significant morphosis. Its meaning shifted throughout the twentieth century, from the receptacle for heroic, self-aggrandizing, na-tional gestures celebrating ideals and triumphs, to ephemeral, conceptual interventions marking national ambivalence and uncertainty. With the possibilities of immersive digital technology and the internet, the twenty-first-century monument has expanded toward the unmonumental, the immaterial, and the virtual. This paper focuses on two Iranian artists living outside of Iran that use digital technologies to reveal power structures inscribed into sculptural and monumental forms. Morehshin Allahyari and Shirin Fahimi engage with the sculptural codes of monuments to propose novel ways to make and mark a space for painful, diasporic, suppressed, or erased memory. They counteract a monumental aesthetic linked to solidity, perma-nence, and stiffness with a monumentality that is participatory, generative, mutable and unfolds between actual and physical spaces. Rethinking the function of sculpture as a monument vis-à-vis its expansion via 3D technologies, augmented reality, and the internet, this paper explores an intermedial and nomadic mon-umentality emerging in recent sculptural discourse.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-3-11-077505-1