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August Klintberg, Proposal for monument 3 (after Night Movements) , 2020

August Klintberg

Proposal for monument 3 (after Night Movements) , 2020
Tirage photographique sur Hahnemühle Photo Gloss Baryta / Photographic print on Hahnemühle Photo Gloss Baryta
14 x 13 "
35.6 x 33 cm
(encadrée/framed)
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
Series: Monument
© August Klintberg
$1,100
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'Central Memorial Park, where this story begins, is a public space featuring several monuments and cenotaph, most of which are connected to military conflict and White, colonial narratives. In my...
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"Central Memorial Park, where this story begins, is a public space featuring several monuments and cenotaph, most of which are connected to military conflict and White, colonial narratives. In my research, I have not yet found a single memorial in Alberta that speaks directly to non-heteronormative histories. As a cis-queer White person who grew up in Alberta and who now lives within blocks of the scene of this murder, I feel a confusing sense of connection to and dislocation from this history. In truth, when I first learned this story I felt vindicated by this man's death-and then felt immediately ashamed and anxious.

While cutting the pattern-piece-shaped stencils to create the Portal suite, I noticed that their contours, when piled together, resembled the sculptural work of Anthony Caro. Caro visited amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) and had great influence on a generation of sculptors working there; as a result, Alberta features many outdoor public artworks that are influenced by Caro's modernist aesthetic. Proposal for monument flirtatiously mimics these antecedent works of art, suggesting that no monument can adequately reckon with this little-known history of a violent man murdered and those whose lives were forever transformed because of his hate. This also raises the question: should queer experience and identity subscribe to the grandiosity inherent in "the memorial" as a category, or are there other, countermonumental formats that could better reflect the subtlety of sexuality and its expressions? " - Mark Clintberg
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« Central Memorial Park, où commence cette histoire, est un espace public où se trouvent plusieurs monuments et cénotaphes, dont la plupart sont liés à des conflits militaires et à des récits blancs et coloniaux. Au cours de mes recherches, je n'ai pas encore trouvé un seul monument commémoratif en Alberta qui parle directement d'histoires non hétéronormatives. En tant que personne blanche cis-queer qui a grandi en Alberta et qui vit maintenant à quelques rues de la scène de ce meurtre, je ressens un sentiment confus de connexion et de dislocation par rapport à cette histoire. En vérité, lorsque j'ai appris cette histoire pour la première fois, je me suis senti justifié par la mort de cet homme - puis j'ai immédiatement ressenti de la honte et de l'anxiété.
En découpant les pochoirs en forme de pièces pour créer la suite Portal, j'ai remarqué que leurs contours, une fois empilés, ressemblaient à l'œuvre sculpturale d'Anthony Caro. Caro a visité amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) et a exercé une grande influence sur une génération de sculpteurs qui y travaillaient ; en conséquence, l'Alberta présente de nombreuses œuvres d'art public extérieures qui sont influencées par l'esthétique moderniste de Caro. La proposition de monument flirte avec ces œuvres d'art antécédentes, suggérant qu'aucun monument ne peut rendre compte adéquatement de cette histoire peu connue d'un homme violent assassiné et de ceux dont la vie a été transformée à jamais à cause de sa haine. Cela soulève également la question suivante : l'expérience et l'identité queer doivent-elles souscrire à la grandiloquence inhérente au "mémorial" en tant que catégorie, ou existe-t-il d'autres formats contre-monumentaux qui pourraient mieux refléter la subtilité de la sexualité et de ses expressions? » - MC
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Exhibitions

Portal at Latitude 53 2020
Portal 2 at PFOAC 2021

Catalogs

Portal catalogue (pg 4, 13, 20, 23)
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