Monument Lab: The role of public art in representing society
With Ken Lum and Paul Farber.
Artist Ken Lum and curator and historian Paul Farber are the co-founders of “Monument Lab”, a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia that takes collaborative approaches to unearthing and reinterpreting histories. In this episode they discuss the potential of art in re-imaging public spaces, how their work in public art has been impacted by COVID-19, what changes they have observed in the past months and how they consider the pandemic will be memorialized.
Ken Lum’s work “Coming Soon” is currently presented in the exhibition “Tell me about y̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ tomorrow” at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
Artist Ken Lum and curator and historian Paul Farber are the co-founders of “Monument Lab”, a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia that takes collaborative approaches to unearthing and reinterpreting histories. In this episode they discuss the potential of art in re-imaging public spaces, how their work in public art has been impacted by COVID-19, what changes they have observed in the past months and how they consider the pandemic will be memorialized.
Ken Lum’s work “Coming Soon” is currently presented in the exhibition “Tell me about y̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ tomorrow” at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
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