After months of intense planning and work, Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia just launched their website (http://monumentlab.com)! #monument_lab is a public art and urban research project taking place at Philadelphia City Hall in Spring 2015 asking a central guiding question: What is the appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?
With curators Professor Ken Lum (UPenn Undergradute Fine Arts) A. Will Brown (RISD Museum) and Paul M. Farber (Haverford College), we will begin to explore answers at an innovative research pavilion at City Hall, a prototype monument by the late artist and professor Terry Adkins, and free dialogues led by Philadelphia artists and critical thinkers using William Penn's iconic plan for the city’s five public squares as inspiration. Working with some dream Philly artists and organizations – The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Creative PHL, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Zoe Strauss, Alexander Rosenberg, Kara Crombie, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Zya S. Levy, and others soon to be announced -- the design also includes implementation of a storefront “lab” which will serve as project headquarters, where participating artists, curators and Philadelphia citizens will brainstorm and instigate ideas for the appropriate monument for contemporary Philadelphia in wake of the traumatic wave of Philadelphia school closings that occurred in 2013.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram – @monument_lab / #monument_lab. And see you at City Hall this May!
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