Anti-Monuments and other alternative forms of remembering and commemorating various social struggles, play an important role in Mexico. Anti-Monuments in public space symbolize the resistance to forgetting and are thus regarded as a medium to reflect on social struggles past and present, to demand clarification, to keep the memory of events and victims alive and to initiate (social) change.
This series of events focuses on Anti-Monuments and memory practices as an expression of disparate social struggles and as an intervention in public space to create collective consciousness.
The Dispersed Memorial, designed and created by Sergio Beltrán-García and Rodrigo da Silva, responds to the growing demand from victims of human rights violations who insist on their right to memory by proposing a low-cost, modular, and self-constructed memorial with the help of mixed-reality technologies.
In its first phase, the prototype of the Dispersed Memorial takes shape as a piece of urban furniture. On this occasion, it is specially dedicated to those whom we said goodbye to during the COVID-19 pandemic. Goethe-Institut Mexiko was able to take part in the creation of one of the memorial’s first prototypes.
When received as a low-cost, do-it-yourself molding kit, the Dispersed Memorial can be built without much difficulty and in a short time.
www.memorialdisperso.com
In Mexico, there are anti-monuments and a number of different memory practices for remembering different social struggles, both past and present. These forms of commemorating symbolize the resistance to oblivion and keep the memory of the events and victims alive.
In collaboration with Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Goethe-Institut Mexiko held a digital “Unconference.” It was a gathering for all those interested in the subject of remembering and commemorating social struggles in public spaces, with a particular focus on three current social struggles.
