“Monument lab: Prototypes/Proposals”

“Monument lab: Prototypes/Proposals”

Curatorial Team: Paul Farber and Ken Lum 

Spring 2019 

This is an image of the Monument Lab: Prototypes/Proposals installation held in the Clough Hanson Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Monument Lab’s Artistic Director Paul Farber. Monument Lab is a national public art and history project based in Philadelphia. As a curatorial team led by Paul Farber and Ken Lum, Monument Lab works with artists, activists, and students to critically engage the monuments we have inherited and unearth the next generation of monuments. "Monument Lab: Prototypes/Proposals" includes prototype monuments from Monument Lab collaborators Kara Crombie, Michelle Angela Ortiz, Jamel Shabazz, and Marisa Williamson, in which they centered projects around themes of social justice and solidarity; artifacts of the Monument Lab public engagement process including samples of the public dataset of proposals and copies of the culminating Report to the City; and a research room that places the exhibition in local and global context. Monument Lab: Prototypes/Proposals will run from January 19 through March 16, 2019.