Counter-Non-Anti-Remembrance. The Anti-monumental Practices by TIST Collective

Yulia S. Tikhomirova

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/17246

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Yulia S. Tikhomirova Sapienza University of Rome

Yulia S. Tikhomirova is an artist and Ph.D. researcher in Heritage Science at Sapienza University of Rome. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the State University of St. Petersburg, a Master’s degree in Photography from the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna, and a Master’s in Arts, Museology, and Curatorship from the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on collective art practices, underground culture, and experimental and participatory museology. In her doctoral work, she investigates digital curatorship, in particular how immersive virtual languages influence civic life, public space and cultural narrative. Tikhomirova is particularly intrigued by the role of the interface as a political construct and the participatory implementation of digital technologies. Tikhomirova is part of the TIST–This Is So Temporary–art collective that operates at the nexus of arts and politics, using a variety of visual practices: digital interactive technologies, performance, sculpture, and publishing activity.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/17246

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monumentality, remembrance, public space, collectivity, urban rituals

Abstract

In the recent decades, monumentality has been significantly reconsidered with its symbolic materiality and agency in public spaces. Counter-, non-, and anti-monumental practices have emerged on the scene of contemporary art as a new, critical mode of commemorative and social ritual. While addressing the well-known query on whether monumentality can still be considered a valid tool able to synthesize and keep the collective memory, the current paper investigates the remembrance practices by TIST collective (Italy). In the last two years TIST implemented a series of artistic actions in the urban space designed to address the emergence and endurance of a commemorative community and the possibility of remembrance as a public ritual.

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