Does your proposed Memorial help to rectify an under-recognized or under-told story of loss?

Conceive, design, and create a proposal for a Memorial, in any medium, to or for any subject matter of your choice. The only limitations are that the Memorial must be for a communal/collective loss rather than one that is solely personal, and that the loss be permanent and irretrievable. Your proposed Memorial needs to be publicly-sited, and your proposal needs to include considerations of the physical 15 site as well. Your final Memorial concept and design needs to be visually rendered, whether as a digital maquette, such as by using sketch up, photoshop etc. to be presented as a video, powerpoint/keynote, etc., or in any other media of your choice, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.

Final presentations should be approximately 5 minutes in length. Your presentation needs to include representations of the Memorial itself as well as the site where it will be located. Regardless of media, you will need to also submit your completed project in digital form.

Please note that all elements of your Memorial need to be visualized such that nothing is left to the imagination.

You also need to include a written descriiption and/or artist statement describing your proposed Memorial. This statement should be approximately one page in length. Some key questions to consider
and address:
• What loss, broadly defined, is being commemorated?
• Does your proposed Memorial help to rectify an under-recognized or under-told story of loss?
And/or does your Memorial tell the story of and commemorate this loss in a new way?
• Is the Memorial you propose intended to be permanent or temporary, and what led to this choice?
• For whom (i.e. for which audiences and communities) is your Memorial intended to reach and speak
to?
• What is the basic concept for your Memorial in representing the relevant loss and/or absence, and what are the most appropriate materials and media to do so?
• How would the proposed Memorial succeed in activating the viewer’s imagination and inner responsibility to remember? (Hint: avoid Memorial concepts and designs which do the “memory work” for the viewer, and thus relieve the public of its responsibility to remember.)
• In terms of the physical site, why this location? And in which way have the physical, cultural, sociopolitical and historical dimensions of the site influenced the Memorial’s concept and design?

Last Completed Projects