ARTMargins Online Launches Special Issue on Contemporary Monument Practices in Central and Eastern Europe

ARTMargins Online published a special issue on November 4, 2021, focusing on contemporary approaches to monuments in Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora. The issue highlights alternative commemorative practices, including documentary projects, performances, and interventions in the post-socialist public sphere. It addresses the region's shifting political landscape, from post-1989 democracy to right-wing nationalisms, and explores new memorial forms like anti-monuments and counter-monuments. Contributors analyze these through lenses of feminism, memory politics, and cultural identity, emphasizing collective healing and public engagement. Articles feature interviews with artists and scholars such as Aida Šehović, Latent Community, Edit András, Ana Lupaş, Miška Mandić, Kuba Dorabialski, Mladen Miljanović, and Ilona Németh. The issue widens global discourse on monumentality, contrasting with debates in the United States and Western Europe over problematic statues. It will release articles over four months, offering case studies on commemorating women, war victims, immigrants, and refugees.