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tom-isaacs · 5 months

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Underneath the Bitumen the Artist - Mike Parr

"This work was conceived to memorialise the victims of twentieth century totalitarian violence in all of its ideological forms, including the shadow cast by the genocidal violence of nineteenth century British colonialism in Australia. "The public will be able to witness the artist’s ‘disappearance’ under the road, but following the entombment, the road will be returned to familiar use. "When the artist exits the container at the conclusion of the performance, concrete will be poured to fuse the chamber and its contents as a time capsule instated for future generations." (source)

"Mr. Parr’s said his vanishing act was designed to tap into our deepest anxieties. Inspired by Kazimir Malevich’s painting 'Black Square,' the performance, Mr. Parr said, was about 'the null of the image.'" (source)

#art #performance art #null #anti-monument #hidden #buried #three days #death #resurrection #malevich #black square #disappearance #entombment

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kropotkindersurprise · 4 months

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January 25, 2024 - A day before the celebration of "Australia day" the statue of Captain Cook in St. Kilda, Australia, was sawn off at the ankles, with the words "The Colony Will Fall" painted on the statue's plinth.

#invasion day #anti-colonialism #st kilda #australia #australia day #statue #vandalism #indigenous #indigenous resistance #aboriginal #2024 #monument #graffiti #spray paint #direct action #captain cook

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nemfrog · 6 months

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Victims of capitalism. Hell before death. 1908.

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#anti capitalism #skulls #skull and bones #macabre #in memoriam #monument #death #halloween #nemfrog #1908 #early 1900s #1k

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dougielombax · 6 months

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This meme is so stupid I fucking love it.

I found it somewhere on the monument Mythos subreddit a few months to a year ago.

It’s way more funny than it has any right to be.

Idk why.

There needs to be a word for that.

Idk if there is one.

If there is, could somebody let me know.

Because it’s starting to drive me up the wall.

I mean it’s not like-*is suddenly and abruptly cut off*

*camera slowly zooms out accompanied by slowed-down 1950s music*

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #monument mythos #the nixonverse #mister manticore #analog horror #impact font #anti meme #Sheldon #sheldor #BingBong theorem #THIS WORLD WILL BE FICTIONALIZED #unreality #don’t ask

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retro-robin · 2 months

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d-day knight fans get your juice i think you deserve it

#the monument mythos #the nixonverse #nixonverse #mister manticore #posting a bunch of my older art here hell yeah #love the anti-war/anti-imperialism themes in nixonverse it's so good #tw blood

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character-of-all-time · 1 year

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DEAN IS NO MAN

This message paid for by the Anti-Dean Association.

#anti propaganda #which in turn is #propaganda #askance #monument mythos

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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A disembodied statue of Joseph Stalin's head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956

Stalin’s monument was torn down on October 23, 1956, by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary’s October Revolution.

#disembodied #statue #Joseph Stalin's head #streets #Budapest #Hungarian Revolution #1956 #50's #50s #monument #October 23 1956 #anti-Soviet crowds #Hungary’s October Revolution #stalin #joseph stalin #black and white photography #photography #photo #history

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ohsalome · 1 year

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#ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #canada #xenophobia #fascism #nazism #rushism #this is a taras shevchenko monument #he was a romantic/anti-imperialist poet #not some nazi russians accuse us of being

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theoffingmag · 6 months

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Mussolini Obelisk, built by Costantino Costantini in 1932 at the entrance of Foro Mussolini in Rome. Courtesy Christian Hincapié, 2018.

I was lucky enough to be in Rome this past summer. I had never been to Europe before. I’m not exactly sure what I expected to find or see in Rome. I knew that the city was essentially a hypercollage of time and material. While that is certainly true, what I found was a completely dystopian setting that has set off many questions for me regarding scale in relation to Western history. This old city is in many ways a carcass, the slowly collapsing Western world putting on display the ruins of its predecessor, the Roman Empire.

Christian Hincapié, "Proposal for a Dismantling"

#art #public art #monument #urbanism #rome #italy #mussolini #anti fascism #history #christian hincapie #the offing

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solarpunk-gnome · 1 year

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I thought this was a really great article about what these monuments I've seen here and there are really about.

#architecture #monuments #Yugoslavia #yugoslav wars #war memorial #anti fascism #anti fascist #human rights #genocide #socialism #spomenik

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stairnaheireann · 6 months

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#OTD in 1893 – Birth of General Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff, IRA, in Limerick.

Liam Lynch was born in Barnagurraha, Co Limerick to Jeremiah and Mary Kelly Lynch. At 17 he was apprenticed to O’Neill’s hardware in Mitchelstown. Shortly after his apprenticeship began he joined the Gaelic League and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He joined the Irish Volunteers after witnessing the arrests of the Kent family by British forces after the failed Easter Rising of 1916. Two of the…

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tom-isaacs · 7 days

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Public Figures - Do Ho Suh

#public art #monument #may day #anti-monument #sculpture

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kropotkindersurprise · 8 months

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October 14, 2022 - A statue of Ayatollah Khomeini is torn down by protesters in Neyshabur, Iran, on the 28th day of protest following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the religious police. [video]

#2022 #iran #gif #jina mahsa amini #mahsa amini #statue #ayatollah khomeini #anti-clericalism #riot #neyshabur #feminism #monument

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whimseysthrone · 7 months

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The Monuments Men (2014)

I’d been meaning to watch this ever since it came out in 2014. I’m a sucker for WW2 stories, and I like art, so I was curious to see a WW2 story about people dedicated to protecting art (with a basis in history). I wasn’t disappointed, but the movie was an odd experience. There’s a quote attributed to François Truffaut, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film.” The Monuments Men might be the…

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#anti-war #art #Band of Brothers #François Truffaut #history #ideology #pro-war #The Monuments Men #World War 2 #ww2

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apveng · 1 year

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If we can talk about ‘Black Excellence’ without also discussing Black okayness, there is something wrong – worsened by a culture of Black British historical remembrance that places ‘remember-worthiness’ only as far as our labour contributions. Whilst in cases this may be due to violent erasure in the archives, it may also reflect a state ideology that positions Black people human value dependent on labour.

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Black people are not Gods, and these monument games are unhelpful, with Black excellence “centred as the kid to impress” (Kinouani, 2021: 162).

There is no paywall, so please give it a read.

#Race Reflections #Monument Culture #Blackness #anti-racism #Tre Ventour

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victoriannarwhal · 2 years

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I still really hate the hobbit movies but at least they were aesthetically pleasing, and gave me Lee Pace's Thranduil, but people saying that rings of power makes the hobbit trilogy look better are off their rocker, it really doesn't and I hate them both for the same reasons. ❤️

#victoria talks #tauriel was a goddamn abomination that shouldn't have been there and fucked up the ending monumentally #she wasn't the only deviation from canon i absolutely fucking hated #anti rings of power #anti the hobbit #yes i still hate the hobbit movies with a burning passion of a thousand fucking suns #i might even like rings of power just a bit more because at least we knew it's bullshit fan fiction from the beginning

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