beyond cenotaphs

What does it mean, in 2009, to represent the facts, acts and consequences of war?  
This exhibition will provide ideas and images around the issues of war and how and for what reasons a war, or wars, are memorialised.

You define the war, the site and propose a war memorial.  This can be entirely your own devising, or can be drawn from a current competition such as the Canadian Navy monument, or it can be a reworking of an inadequate existing memorial.  
It can be a traditional object, a re-signification of an existing landscape, the dissemination of a text,  a performance, a new media project.  

The exhibition forms a complement to On Site issue 22::WAR (Fall 2009).  

We are most interested in registering how people today feel that war might be effectively marked.  What comes after the cenotaph, or Maya Lin’s walls, or wartime memory websites, to honour the participants in war, to validate or invalidate war, to prevent war, to rally to war, to mark war? 

On Site 22 will be commenting on the leftover landscapes of war, urbicide,  monuments,  dark tourism, ad hoc memorials, the walls of partition, reconstruction.  This exhibition proposes new work, where form rather than text offers the commentary.

New entries are welcome, two pages maximum, send as a pdf. 

What the submission must contain is:
1.  a title
2.  the war – which, where, when, issues and causes (500 words maximum)
3.  the site – mapped
4.  a form – show it to us in a way that fits a screen (about 1024x768px ) 
5.  a short biographical note, contact email and your website if you want your project linked to your site

Maximum submission size: 2 pages, sent as pdfs please, to exhibitions

This call for submissions is an open call: we are most interested in registering how people today feel that war might be effectively marked.  What comes after the cenotaph, or Maya Lin’s walls, or wartime memory websites, to honour the participants in war, to validate or invalidate war, to prevent war, to rally to war, to mark war?
Any questions, please contact us.

War Memorial Exhibition

To view this exhibition please click here, or on the war memorial exhibition title above.  Clicking on any of the thumbnail images will take you to a full screen version.