Remediate

Slought and Monument Lab are pleased to announce Remediate, a national initiative to support dialogue and action about the changing monumental landscape of the United States, beginning Fall 2018. With generous support from the Surdna Foundation, we are invested in working with artists, activists, scholars, architects, planners, students, and others who are engaging the monumental landscape in their neighborhoods, cities, and regions.

Remediate studies and engages recent public debate and civic action around the monumental landscape of U.S. cities. Remediate will operate as a national fellows program and a media hub for writing, audio/video projects, and civic data that can help critically understand the monuments we have inherited and help unearth the next generation of monuments, especially around themes of social justice and solidarity.

The initiative will support individuals' local, ongoing projects around the country that address long term inequities in monument building and propose new creative approaches to public art and history. The term "remediate" refers to a form of critical engagement, often used by environmental practitioners, to diagnose and take steps to addresses toxic materials embedded within geographic contexts. We extend the term toward historic narratives and practices of exclusion – along lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and national status – as way to respond to the movement growing across the country.

New opportunities and projects will rollout beginning Fall 2018.