The Dispersed Memorial (English) by Monument Lab

The Dispersed Memorial (English) by Monument Lab

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All Rights: Sergio Beltrán-García _ The Dispersed Memorial responds to a form of mnemonic violence whereby governments artificially hike the political and economic costs of memorial construction, thus denying victims of human rights violations their right to memory. States create the perception of limited resources for memorialization and, through political risk assessment, select which victims of human rights violations are granted access to their rights. By dividing attended victims against those neglected, governments reappropriate both power and memory, which undermines the agency of protest and memorials. The Dispersed Memorial is inspired by the Stolpersteine and affective practices of protest memory, and is informed by key concepts from the transcultural turn in memory studies, particularly Michael Rothberg’s multidirectional memory. This project seeks to counter the challenges of victim attention by proposing a low-cost, modular and self-constructing memorial assisted by mixed reality technologies which bridges the gaps between attended to and ignored victims. For the Monument Lab fellowship, the Dispersed Memorial completed its first phase of three, which designed and deployed a limited number of small-scale prototypes. Each prototype is a flat-packed DIY kit sent to communities via mail, which is easily constructed at its destination to take form as the hardware element of the project: a piece of urban furniture. During Phase 1, the Dispersed Memorial is dedicated to those we have lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. A QR code embedded in the constructed DIY memorial provides access to an online platform where participants share where they would place their own Dispersed Memorial. Contributions are provided through anecdotes of the places where we lived valuable moments with the people we have lost, thus collaboratively creating a cartography that connects different cultures through time and space in shared mourning. As the network of both hardware and software grows, participating victims contribute to a collective database of violence where connections and collaboration—and not competition—across diverse communities and cultures are facilitated. Find out more, sign up for news, or participate at https://memorialdisperso.com/eng

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