Public Art
Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston
Pao Arts Center is thrilled to be a curatorial partner of the City of Boston’s Un-monument, Re-monument, De-Monument: Transforming Boston. Alongside Boston Public Art Triennial, Emerson Contemporary, National Center of Afro-American Artists, North American Indian Center of Boston Chief of Arts and Culture, the Center's public art activations will reflect on whose stories are included or excluded in Boston's narratives. Pao Arts Center will share a series of temporary public art and performance place-based projects and events that celebrate Chinatown as a neighborhood, cultural hub, and monument within the City. Each public intervention will showcase and uplift underrepresented Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) voices and consider how public art can inspire residents, visitors, and artists to engage in these efforts.
This summer and fall Pao Arts Center will present:
by Sheila Novak, Cass Li, and Wen-hao Tien with project support from Maria Fong
by Joanna Tam
by Jennifer Duan, Stephanie Li, and
Katelyn Lipton
Public Art Community Review Panel:
About the Curator:
Lani Asunción (they/she)
Lani Asunción uses transmedia storytelling and research in their interdisciplinary multimedia practice to create socially conscious work that encourages contemplation and reflection on counter narratives around collective resistance to settler colonial states everywhere. Drawing from their multiracial Filipinx-American lived experiences to explore the intricacies of identity and belonging, confronting the inner weaving of intergenerational trauma with ritualized happenings, through explorations of performance and public art that serve as acts of reclamation.
The Un-monument initiative is presented by Pao Arts Center, curated by Lani Asunción, in collaboration with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture brought to you by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
