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“The story goes something like this: In my hometown of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, there is a statue of Queen Victoria on Cambridge Terrace. Queen Victoria was the ruling British monarch during the colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s indigenous peoples and their lands. Across the street from this monument is a pub where my parents and their friends used to drink together on a Friday night. I was told that, after the pub closed every Friday night, people would leave the pub and cross the street to pee on a particular side of the plinth. They hoped that with regular saturation, the ground on one side of the plinth would become so soggy that the statue would fall over.”

Thank you M. for your story ✨

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Still from Minga Prácticas De-coloniales, Cultural kidnapping for Caucan dignity (2021)

“STILL TO BE NAMED / AÚN POR NOMBRAR”

exhibition curated by PAOLA PEÑA at PS122 gallery NOVEMBER 12, 2022 – JANUARY 15, 2023

Participating Artists: Andrea Ferrero, Andrés Monzón, Gala Berger, José Ruiz, Juan Covelli, Laura Campaz, Minga Prácticas De-coloniales (*Emiliano Çxayu’çe and Edison Quiñones Falla of Nasa origin, Estefanía García Pineda of the Caribbean coast, Miller Muñoz of Cauca, Taita Lorenzo Tunubalá Hurtado Mørøpik Misak, Phuyu Uma (Jenniffer Ávila Jordan) and Isua Pørøpik (Eyder Calambás Tróchez) of the Misak nation).

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Studio Nilo

Marco Izzolino, curator of the H.M. episode at the Corps of Naples, and I have transformed the coffee table in front of the monument of the God Nile into our study. A table and a few coffees to compare our research and looks, to calculate the trajectory of the sun and stay in the flow that gorges in the Corps of Naples. We thus become part of the dozens of activities that are knotted around its pedestal. Stakeout after stakeout.

versione italiana

Marco Izzolino, curatore dell’episodio al Corpo di Napoli, ed io abbiamo trasformato il tavolino del bar di fronte al monumento del Dio Nilo nel nostro studio. Un tavolo e qualche caffè per confrontare le nostre ricerche e sguardi, per calcolare la traiettoria del sole e stare nel flusso che gordoglia nel Corpo di Napoli. Entriamo a far parte così delle decine di attività che si annodano intorno al suo piedistallo. Appostamento dopo appostamento.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCO2lE0IQ2c)

Memoriale a Costanzo Ciano ( o di quel che ne rimane) di Arturo Dazzi

Hacked da Az.Namusn.Art con il progetto “If Today Was Your Last Day and Tomorrow Was Today”

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JOHN A. MACDONALD 

MONTREAL, October 7, 2018 — On the eve of a demonstration against racism in Montreal, a group of anonymous local anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist activists have again successfully defaced the historical monument to Canada’s first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, located in downtown at Place du Canada.

https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/10/07/antifa-colonial-racist-john-a-macdonald-monument-once-again-vandalized-with-red-paint-in-montreal/

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DIO NILO, anonimo

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CABRINI by Simona Da Pozzo

“Hic et Nunc | Cabrini” blackgel pen drawing on paper 450gr, Simona Da Pozzo, Milan 2018

The tetrahedron points its light downwards. This pure geometric volume, drawn with clear lines, indicates a point between the columns of the central arch that separates Piazza Duca d'Aosta from the portico of the Galleria delle Carrozze of Milan's Central Station.

The enormous tetrahedron wedges itself into the façade, offering itself as a two-dimensional vision: a triangle indicating the central access to the station, placed in such a way as to exasperate the symmetries of the building.

Its three-dimensionality is lost in the arc, letting itself be caught only by the passer-by who obeys the indicative diktat and passes into the point highlighted by the luminous geometry.

The monument marks the entrance or exit of the station, depending on the points of view. It is a monument dedicated to migrants. A good luck charm. An ex voto? A memorial stone? A warning?

Its vocation, despite the statement that saw it erected, is ambiguous.

It doesn't seem like an amulet aimed at those who would need to be protected. His best point of observation is, in fact, that which he has as he approaches from afar, preferably from the Piazza della Repubblica.

The tetrahedron, monumental if seen up close, becomes instead a graphic sign, an architectural complement to the powerful structure of the station, if seen from afar. The approach is revealed in all its icy rendering vision.

With the latest renovations and adaptations of Piazza Duca d'Aosta a strange visual nonsense is created: the place indicated, pointed, put with so much energy in relief by the "arrow dimension" of this monument, has been completely packed with functional elements to access the subway. An elevator, a skylight and an event stand seem to want to hide the centre of attention of this luminous installation.

As you wander under the installation, you can quickly see what the tetrahedron is hiding and revealing today. Military vans, police cars, men waiting (maybe a job or that time simply passes without damage).

Odours, music from elsewhere, journeys of hope and a sense of control.

To reread this monument as a work dedicated to migrants, one should reconceptualize it and think of it as a performative work composed of the whole of the luminous object and the people who let themselves be guided every day and every night by its vector.

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GENERALE NELSON by Greenpeace

Greenpeace si è lanciata in una nuova manifestazione di protesta a Londra, per informare l’opinione pubblica dei gravi problemi che l’aumento dell’inquinamento dell’aria sta portando nelle metropoli di tutta l’Europa.

La statua dell’ammiraglio Nelson a Trafalgar Square di Londra, quella dell’alata figura di Eros dio dell’amore a Piccadilly Circus e la statua di bronzo del calciatore Thierry Henry fuori dallo stadio del Football Club dell’Arsenal. Questi sono alcuni dei monumenti, che gli attivisti di Greenpeace hanno rivestito con una serie di maschere antigas per protestare con l’inquinamento atmosferico. In totale, sono più di 17 i monumenti presi di mira da Greenpeace nella capitale britannica.

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