MONUMENTUM
MONUMENTUM: the momentum of an ephemeral monument, explores the concept of ephemeral, bottom-up monuments, focusing on contextual interactions and processes developed, facilitated and inhabited by the PLANT programme partners, the collective of resident artists, and local participants. The project is rooted in the idea of creating temporary, performative "monuments" that reflect the specific context of the places visited, the local culture, the interactions within the communities created, and the symbolic meaning of creative gestures and the imprint they leave behind after their activation.

Our interest in the project was two-fold: On one hand, we aimed to discover how and with what languages (textual, performative, contextual or other) we could approach the realm of counter-monuments and monument-ing as an ongoing process. On the other hand, we sought to devise a prototype practice that would generate new meanings and connections between the places, the people, and the ideas we collectively involved in the process.