Memorialising the future

📝 Curator's Text
2022

This text written in response to the event, How can we rethink the memorial?, that explored how memorials can offer platforms to commemorate while also inspiring us to collectively imagine new futures.

Memorialising the future is a text written in response to How can we rethink the memorial?, the fifth of a series of six online Constellations ° Assemblies by UP Projects’ Senior Curator (Learning & Live Research), Elisabeth Del Prete, that highlights key insights and considerations from the event held on 14 September 2022.

How can we rethink the memorial? was moderated by Neysa Page-Lieberman and Jane M. Saks, Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors of Monuments to Movements (M2M), and invited artist duo, Elmgreen & Dragset and artist group, Raqs Media Collective to explore how memorials can offer platforms to commemorate while also inspiring us to collectively imagine new futures.