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November 2024

Creating a Disturbance: Interventions to Historical Monuments and Statues

November 13 @ 8:00 am - November 16 @ 5:00 pm
University of Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa + Google Map

Movements such as #Rhodes Must Fall and #Black Lives Matter have had an important impact on art in the public domain, leading to a far greater critical sensitivity to the histories of people and issues commemorated in historical monuments and statuary than was hitherto often the case. But the “falling” of statues and monuments commemorating individuals and events associated with problematical ideologies and practices has not been the only outcome of this abhorrence. Of importance also has been a critical…

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