Thanks @thejesssmith for taking a moment for Memory Work at @thebentway . Memory Work is a monument that commemorates a speculative world. Concerned equally with the relational and the imaginary, the Memory Work Collective engages in the mutual recounting and reconstruction of lived experience to contemplate possible worlds. Their research-based practice creates material for meditation, critique and new ways of living — negotiating ethical and moral imperatives across (past, present and future) time. @rajniperera @talatintin @naomisk @studioonstrike @omii_film @_macysiu_ @arowbe @jacsanscartier @from_syd @mechaclarke @jenmaramba @miluandashou @gutflora_ @sundanceharvest @dori_tunstall

Who will decide what comes next? What must new monuments do?” asks Claire Flanegin in her FORWARD Issue 7 opening essay, Monumental Shifts. Made in collaboration with @NewMonumentsTaskforce (NMTF), this seventh issue focuses on monuments and memorials. Guest-edited by Flanegin, an architectural and urban historian, and with the vision of the entire NMTF team, it spotlights a shifting commemorative landscape. Browse these beautiful pages through the link in bio to learn about artists challenging systems of power through new monuments. In her essay, Flanegin shares the thinking behind project selection and the ways the commemorative landscape is changing. You’ll discover guidelines for what new monuments should do, and learn about the four project categories—Reinterpreting Sites, Narrative Shifts, Public Participation, and New Aesthetics. In all case study categories, you’ll find women, nonbinary, and trans artists featured. Photos: 1) Los Seis de Boulder; 📸 courtesy Jasmine Baetz. 2) Memory Work; project by @memorywork_ @since21xx , installation artwork by Tala Kamea, Naomi Skwarna, Rajni Perera, Omii Thompson, @_macysiu_ , @arowbe , Emily Woudenberg, Erica Whyte, Jac Sanscartier, and Sydney Allen-Ash; 📸 by Jeremy Glenn. 3) ᏔᎷᏣ The Basket; by artist Mary W. Thompson (Eastern Band of Cherokee); 📸 by Swinney Creative, courtesy @centerforcraft . 4) Stay; by artist Sam Fields @lady__of__leisure , with construction support from Kate Wildman, Beckett Brueggemann, Lex Morris-Wright, Emi Madsen, Leo Liu, Luna Tudor-Doonan, Rusty Janardan, Lily Cohen, and Maya Greenfield; 📸 © Annielly Camargo. @thetriennial #PublicArt #Monuments #Memorials #NewMonuments

We are thrilled to share that we have been working with @forecastpublicart on the seventh issue of their FORWARD publication. A labor of love for the past year, we present to you: FORWARD 07: MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS ! "Made in collaboration with New Monuments Taskforce (NMTF), the seventh issue of FORWARD focuses on the role of artists in creating new monuments and memorials. It highlights projects and partnerships that use art and creativity to challenge systems of power in a shifting commemorative landscape. Readers will come away with inspiration as well as practical ideas for how they can reimagine monuments and memorials in their own communities, better uplift marginalized voices, and help people experience spaces in new ways. Artists continue to be valuable partners in this work because of their capacity for imagination and connections to community perspectives that could otherwise be lost or ignored." FORWARD 07 was guest edited by New Monuments’ collaborator and historian Claire Flanegin with the vision of the whole NMTF team. Cheyenne Concepcion and Anna Lisa Escobedo leant their experience as artists and each led a section of the publication as the Featured Essayist and Public Art Now Curator, respectively. We are excited to share selections from the issue throughout the week on our social channels. Follow the link in our bio to read Monuments and Memorials in its entirety and share this and future posts with your networks! . #newmonumentstaskforce #NMTF #publicart #monumentsandmemorials #monument #forecastpublicart

We’re proud to present FORWARD Issue 7: Monuments & Memorials. This meaningful issue explores how artists are challenging systems of power through new monuments, in a shifting commemorative landscape. Read it now (link in bio), be inspired, and share. Browse these pages to come away with inspiration as well as practical ideas for how you can reimagine monuments and memorials in your own community. This seventh FORWARD issue is made in collaboration with @newmonumentstaskforce ; It is guest-edited by NMTF’s Claire Flanegin (@sleepygirlsclub ), an architectural and urban historian, with the vision of the entire NMTF team. You’ll find a featured essay from NMTF founder and artist Cheyenne Concepcion (@cheyenneconcepcion ) about the destruction of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and how our monuments reflect and shape our nation. As our Public Art Now guest curator, NMTF member Anna Lisa Escobedo (@rockin.lisa ) presents 5 public artworks that create impact through engaging history, storytelling, and collective memory—including, for example, a 9-ton Olmec head that trolls Elon Musk, an interactive wax replica of the Lincoln memorial, and a guerrilla project not sanctioned by its host city. These works, she says, “are seeds of possibilities and imagination for the future of monuments and memorials.” Images: 1) FORWARD7 welcome page. Memory Work, a project by the Memory Work Collective @memorywork_ @since21xx @arowbe @_macysiu_ . 📸 by Serena Choi. 2) @jannanonymous with sign from Philippine Village Historical Site. 📸 © Janna Añonuevo Langholz. 3) Shadow of a Face by Nina Cooke John. 📸 © Cesar Melgar, DreamPlay Media. 4) “Little Central America, 1984” performance with Tim Fábrega and Belén Delancey. Co-writers and co-executive producers Rubén Martínez and Elia Arce. 📸 by Stan Weinstein. 5) Trans People Are Sacred billboard by artist Nyjah Gobert @gobert.nyj . 📸 courtesy SaveArtSpace @saveartspace .

The #RitualizingRadicalimagination channel on @aredotna is a great resource for materials that help in envisioning + strategizing for liberated futures. Check it out https://www.are.na/kamila-shakur/ritualizing-radical-imagination 💻

Gemini season you were chaotic yet very wholesome.

When @since21xx reached out and asked if I’d be open to writing about @memorywork_ for @newestnewestnewest I couldn’t say no, because it’s genuinely one of my favorite futures projects ever. So grateful to have a chance to visit the work again. Thank you so much for sharing your process and story in conversation @_macysiu_ @talatintin @arowbe . 🙏🏽 And thank you especially to @rajikauraujla for the time and space to write these words. ✨

Unlike many futuristic artworks, “Memory Work” is grounded in research and interpretations of actions and events observable today. The project began with a research phase led by Toronto-based studio From Later, which examined emerging forces of change—analyzing their potential effects, cataloguing uncertainties, exploring scenarios, and dreamscaping with communities. ⁠ ⁠ “Memory work” is on view at The Bentway through April 30, 2023.⁠ ⁠ @memorywork_ ⁠ @since21xx ⁠ @rajniperera ⁠ ⁠ Curated by Memory Work Collective⁠ Co-presented by From Later and The Bentway with support from CONTACT, as part of ArtworxTO: Toronto's Year of Public Art 2021–2022. Additional support by the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Toronto, and the Toronto Arts Council⁠ @thebentway ⁠ @canada.council ⁠ @culture_to ⁠ @torontoartscouncil ⁠ ⁠ Photo: Samuel Engelking⁠ ⁠ #CONTACT2022 #LensBasedArt #OutdoorInstallation #PublicInstallation #PublicArt #TorontoMurals #TOBentway #TorontoArt #ArtworxTO #TorontoPublicArt #ArtistsTO #TOArt

Spring-Summer round up of art projects that I was lucky enough to play a small role in. 🙌🙌🙌 Congrats to all of the artists! 1 & 2: Black Ark by @olu.seye at Ashbridges Bay Park 3: pi'tawita'iek: we go up river by @jordanbennettart at @ocaduniversity 4: 1,000 Faces by Alejandro aka +Amor, Nigel Irwin, and Chris Malkowski at Trillium Park @ontarioplace 5: Over Floe by @johnnotten at Nathan Phillips Square (now at Mel Lastman Square) 6: Maanjidowin: The Gathering by David General at @bbishopairport 7: Memory Work by @memorywork_ at the Strachan Gate of @thebentway 8: Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV by @joarnango at @evergreen_brick_works with @torontobiennial and @a_g_y_u 9: Project T-Dot by @ajaniphoto at City Hall 10: State of Emergency by @cody.punter at Christie Pits Park (and other parks around the city! . . . #artworxto #torontopublicart #publicartwork #publicarttoronto

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Behind the Scenes of the Memory Work monument. What do our clothes say who we are or how we live? Artists Tala Kamea (@talatintin ) and Naomi Skwarna (@naomisk ) drew on the richness of the Memory Work speculative world to reflect the unique cultural values and working lives of the characters inhabiting that world. . . . #memorywork #fromlater #thebentway #publicart #toronto #art #torontolife #torontoartist #collective #since21xx #specdesign #torontohiddengems #costumedesign

Are you seeing these Memory Work posters around Toronto? Tag us in your pictures! And tap in to the Memory Work phone line at 1-855-910-2050 ext. 7 to learn more about Dom (pictured here) and the Mothers of Invention. #memorywork #publicart #futuresthinking #specdesign #mothersofinvention #scenario #toronto