“Let me propose the neologism ‘monumentaries’ to describe the notion that monuments are not just material documents of the past, but also the expression of a contemporary editorial point of view. Monumentaries are historical buildings that have been purposefully altered post facto in order to influence our perception and conception of them.”

e-flux: Monumentaries: Toward a Theory of the Apergon - Journal #66 October 2015 - e-flux

Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni farmer and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, is working with Zuni artists to create maps that bring an indigenous voice and perspective back to the land, countering Western notions of place and geography and challenging the arbitrary borders imposed on the Zuni world.

Recalling visceral moments in his life, poet Jake Skeets explores how time and land hold “fields” of memory that can unfold through language and storytelling.

Solastalgia is the premonition of transition, a sense of loss from an anticipated future. It is the feeling of homesickness before leaving home. The Solastalgic Archive holds materials that contextualize and give breadth to the experience of living and making in this time of accelerated change. The Archive contains ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience from a wide range of contributors. The Solastalgic Archive is an evolving, changing, temporal thing.

An immersive audio experience based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When you are at each coordinate, play the associated audio track.

This interactive poetry map pinpoints reflections, epiphanies, and emotions on specific streets, buildings, and landmarks within New Mexico. Through this poetic cartography, both emerging and established writers layer their voices with the history and cultural vibrancy of the state.

Cities and Memory is a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project that remixes the world, one sound at a time. The project covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000 sounds, and more than 1,000 contributing artists.

Every field recording in the project has been recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world to create a new, alternative world of sound – you can listen via the sound map or podcast.

Compass Roses: Maps by Artists is a national artwork co-curated by Nadine Wasserman and Renee Piechocki. The project offers a selection of maps created by visual, literary and performing artists. For each map the artists were asked to consider and interpret their city in any way they wished. The content of each map is therefore unique and might contain readily recognizable places or imaginary ones or those that have been forgotten or are unfamiliar.

There Must Be Other Names For The River is a composition for singers who embody river flow data at six points along what we call the Rio Grande. The exhibition features a web-based sound installation and virtual community space titled “Tributaries,” where viewers can contribute their voice to the project. The piece engages our relationship with this source of life in this region, and in a time of physical distancing, acknowledges that the river is also a way we are connected with neighbors and ecosystems, seen and unseen.

In recognition of the imperative for fresh, accessible water for all, artists Marisa Demarco, Dylan McLaughlin and Jessica Zeglin are releasing the online participatory installation of their composition on World Water Day. This work—through visceral re-connection and acknowledgement—aims to spur the questions that must be asked so we can make demands of governments and industry to save this river.