Events

Past Event

Monument Lab: A Memorial to the Pandemic

May 27, 2021
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Online

Event Description

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage lives and livelihoods (especially of the most precarious, underserved communities) across the world. Traditional modes of mourning and commemoration are dangerous and ill-advised. How then, might communities and individuals grieve their losses? In this conversation, Sergio Beltrán-García (artist and activist) and Patricia Eunji Kim (art historian and curator) discuss the memorials, strategies, and stakes of commemorating the pandemic. If we dare to memorialize the pandemic dead, we must commit to unveiling the systemic inequities that left them so exposed. In other words, a memorial to the pandemic must also confront the very issues of labor, race, gender, and access that both created and exacerbated the conditions of vulnerability. 

Event Speakers

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Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage for additional information.

Hosted by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University.