Serious Games: An experimental curriculum
A: Critical Monumental Theory/Monuments beyond art history: iconology and strategies of subversion.
- WJT Mitchell What Do Monuments Want? , Michael Taussig Monuments Must Do Better from Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization at DIA, https://youtu.be/caGhHQT9WYY
- Robert Musil , Monuments
- Documenta 13: Public monument Glossary selections
- Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Media, Politics,Amnesia
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, Whose culture is it, anyway? , Cosmopolitanism, pages 128-135
Further reading:
- Huyssen, Andreas, Monument and memory in a postmodern age. The Yale Journal of Criticism, 1993.
- Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin, Monuments and memory, made and unmade , University of Chicago Press, 2004
- Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Duke University Press, 1998
B: Decolonising, the question of the Icon, emergent social spaces
- Συνέντευξη του Γιάννη Χαμηλάκη στον Κώστα Χριστόπουλο, Ανασκάπτοντας μνήμες: Για μια πολυ–αισθητηριακή και πολυ–χρονική αρχαιολογία, anthology of the 4th Athens Biennial AGORA
- Achille Mbembe, Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive
- Kim Dovey, Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form
- John Peffer, Censorship and Iconoclasm: Unsettling Monuments
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20167676
Further reading:
- Dario Gamboni, Image to Destroy, Indestructible Image (2002)
- Guy Debord, Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography 1955
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/urbgeog.htm
C: Political*Art
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, pages 199-212
- Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Spaces of Appearance,
https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/series/the-spaces-of-appearance/
- Truth is concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies
in Real Politics, Edited by steirischer herbst and Florian Malzacher, Coedited by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch, Andreas R. Peternell, and Johanna Rainer
- Hans Haacke, Monumenting
- Sérgio Miguel Franco, Defacing
- Krzysztof Wodiczko, Interrogative Design
D: Projects+ Situated discourse
- Nero editions: Decolonise!
https://www.neroeditions.com/docs/decolonize/
- From Spaces of Resistance to the Architecture of Repair: Gregory Sholette, Nandini Bagchee, Libertad Guerra, Todd Ayoung
https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1239/06-may-2021-from-spaces
- Simon Sheikh, Planes of immanence, or the form of ideas: Notes on the(anti-)Monuments of Thomas Hirschhorn
An anthology of further references: Artist’s Projects, Ephemeral Memorials, and Anti-Memorials
- Raphael Lozano-Hemmer Voz Alta, ephemeral memorial for the student massacre in Tlatelolco 1968, http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/voz_alta.php
- Invisible Monument
http://invisiblemonument.com/10
- Joseph DeLappe, The 1,000 Drones — A Participatory Memorial , 2014
- Wafaa Bilal, and Counting…, 2010
- Bryan C Lee’s Paper Monuments: http://bit.ly/2whSjhi
- Amina Menia, Enclosed , 2012