Monumental cares, Sites of history and contemporary art - Mechtild Widrich (Manchester University Press) MIT Press Mayer called these projects “temporary

Mayer called these projects “temporary monuments

the different texts ramble across the banana plantations

"I don’t know anyone who writes like Balsam Karam

with authoritarian regimes

that pursues the poetry coursing underneath the poetry

Monumental cares, Sites of history and contemporary art - Mechtild Widrich (Manchester University Press) MIT Press Mayer called these projects “temporaryMonumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to postcards, graffiti and re enactment. A multidirectional theory of site does justice to specific places but also