Archinect - News2024-09-18T22:53:45-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150439348/olalekan-jeyifous-reconstituted-unmonument-comes-to-brooklyn-with-the-black-reconstruction-collective
Olalekan Jeyifous' reconstituted 'Unmonument' comes to Brooklyn with the Black Reconstruction Collective Josh Niland2024-07-30T13:01:00-04:00>2024-08-01T18:18:42-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/43/438c1732ce1a263f51f90ddf16d40f71.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Next week, Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center begins the first of a new imaginative public art installations series from the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1712496/black-reconstruction-collective" target="_blank">Black Reconstruction Collective</a>. There, the industrial ‘Unmonument’ will take center stage starting August 8 as the instigator of several other small site activations surrounding it. The aim is to challenge the conventional notions of what the collective says are the most frequently perpetuated ‘myths’ about power, permanence, and the collective experience of the societies that construct them.</p>
<p>As a memorial to the many liberated Black diasporic communities across the country, such as Weeksville, the installation highlights an important narrative within Black history and is augmented by programming from the multidisciplinary oral tradition incubator <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackdiscourse.co/" target="_blank">Black Discourse</a>. </p>
<p>The Crown Heights rendition, reconfigured by <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1694305/olalekan-jeyifous" target="_blank">Olalekan Jeyifous</a>, precedes <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150305648/you-can-t-produce-exceptional-results-using-conventional-thinking-sekou-cooke-studio-on-challenging-inherited-structures" target="_blank">Sekou Cooke</a>'s Syracuse contribution in September; another from <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150354024/ai-is-built-on-datasets-that-are-already-biased-a-conversation-with-felecia-davis" target="_blank">Felecia Davis</a> in Bellefonte, PA, in December; and, next ye...</p>