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Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)

Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)

Update: 2024-03-071
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In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogates the state of monuments across the greater U.S. and what their future says about where we are now and where we’re going.

This was the concluding episode, exploring how some monuments are larger than life, dwarfing us, making us feel small relative to the grandness of history. But what if a monument was human-scaled? What if it made us aware of our bodies in space? We don’t often think about the design choices that go into making a monument, but more and more, a new generation of artists and designers are reimagining what a monument can look and feel like, and the kinds of stories they can hold.

This episode takes us to Montgomery, Alabama to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, to Shreveport, Louisiana, to the South Side of Chicago, to Navajo Nation in Arizona. It explores how many American monuments to slavery took inspiration from Holocaust memorials in Germany. And it looks at decentralized memorials that are using technology to help bring monuments to the past into the future.

See the images:
https://bit.ly/49FR3Ui

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
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Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)

Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)

Tamar Avishai