The 12-Hour Monument Project
Using your monument research presentations and the lecture as inspiration, construct your own 12-hour monument for Rejmyre. Consider some of the monument genres that emerged from the examples shown: superlatives, history, absence, public / private, burden, absurdity, function, sanctioned vs. unofficial, hidden, surreal, the
monument vs. the monumental etc. We will tour the works tomorrow
morning. Given the limitations of time and materials how can you approach this task? We are not trying to
answer this question, think of your moment as a way of furthering this conversation
about place.
The first project should be done individually.
Process
Monuments were constructed around Rejmyre, ranging from a replacement flag [for one of the Swedish flags on a pole outside the glass factory] with a hand-written Arabic phrase reading "Welcome Home" to a series of sugar disc monuments placed at the base of ant mounds to an archive of the dust and slips of paper left behind on the otherwise emptied shelves in the former glass factory's storage room.
In the slide lecture that accompanied this project brief we looked at a range of artists, designers and architects including:
Giovanni Anselmo, Jan Svennungson, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jeff Talman, Cornelia Parker, James Turrell, Wim Delvoye, Eric Cameron, Constantine Brancusi, Alighero Boetti, August Rodin, Didier Vermeiren, Robert Smithson, Vaclav Cigler, Maurizio Catelan, Maya Lin, Pierro Manzoni, Rachel Whiteread, Doris Salcedo, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jaume Plensa, Ken Lum, Micha Ullman, Xu Zhen, Shimon Attie, Jochen Gerz, Peter Eisenman, Santiago Sierra
