Monumental Death

Designer: Kate Ladenheim

Class Title: Thesis Project

Monumental Death is an interactive installation consisting of an inflatable anti-monument and movement score. The project seeks to dismantle tropes of heroism as represented by monuments and popular media. As a designed interaction, this work asks audiences to confront the bodily performance in nationalist propaganda.

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