Tomas Macsotay is a Senior Lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, holding a PhD on eighteenth-century sculpture (Amsterdam, 2008). His six books and edited collections include, The Hurt(ful) Body. Performing and Beholding Pain (2017) and Recepción de Richard Wagner y Vanguardia en las Artes Españolas (2024).Nausikaä El-Mecky is tenure-track professor in Art History & Visual Culture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Since her PhD (Cambridge 2013) she has been developing her self-defined field of “dangerous images,” e.g., in the monograph The Creation of Dangerous Images in Iconoclasm, (Routledge, forthcoming).

• Thamyris Mission StatementNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyPART 1: Overhauling: an Anatomy of Memorial Contestations1 Local Origins of a Global Series: the 1990s Wave of Anti-colonial IconoclasmNikolas Orr2 Commemoration and (Re)Conciliation: Memorial Culture under Apologetic Settler Colonialism in CanadaSeraphine Appel3 Contemporary Iconoclasm and AffectErnst van Alphen4 Traumatic Monuments: Decolonial Iconoclasms and “Southern” MemoriesRhea Dehn Tutosaus and Miriam Oesterreich5 To Remove, or Not To Remove, That Is the Question: the Troubled Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek Statues and Memorials in Democratized TaiwanDominic Meng-Hsuan YangPART 2: Facing: Making a Difference in Memorial Activism6 A Space of Freedom: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Memorial and the Future of AmericaDavid Ehrenpreis7 Conversations on Black Lives MatterTami Sawyer with Stacy Boldrick; Keith Magee with Richard Clay8 Activist Statement: Down with J. P. CoenRomy Rondeltap9 Colonial Reckoning: Reexamining the Slave Past in CataloniaGerard Llorens Decesaris and Adrià Enríquez ÀlvaroPART 3: Waking: Imaginings of a Post-Monument10 Dissolution of the MonumentsPaul Grace11 The Agency of the Void: When a Monument Falls, Absence Transforms into Powerful PresenceNausikaä El-Mecky12 Toppling Things: Artistic Approaches and Media Strategies in Dealing with Monuments—Alexandra Pirici, Morehshin Allahyari, Julius von Bismarck & Julian CharrièreUrsula Ströbele13 Taking a Knee: Permanence, Ritual and the Respect InsurrectionTomas Macsotay14 Artist/Activist Statement: In Search of an Aesthetic of Care: Recording BLM Protests and Documenting One’s Life in a Time of ReckoningRuth SomaloPART 4: Prolonged Engagements: Artistic Testimonies15 Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies and “Deep Time” in Ada Pinkston’s LandMarkedCory Wayman16 Empty Pedestals or The Aesthetics of TruthAda Pinkston17 Artist Statement: On Disgraced Monuments, their Resignification and the Recovery of Emptied SitesKrzysztof Wodiczko18 Epilogue: 2020 RevisitedTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyIndex

Tomas Macsotay is a Senior Lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, holding a PhD on eighteenth-century sculpture (Amsterdam, 2008). His six books and edited collections include, The Hurt(ful) Body. Performing and Beholding Pain (2017) and Recepción de Richard Wagner y Vanguardia en las Artes Españolas (2024).Nausikaä El-Mecky is tenure-track professor in Art History & Visual Culture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Since her PhD (Cambridge 2013) she has been developing her self-defined field of “dangerous images,” e.g., in the monograph The Creation of Dangerous Images in Iconoclasm, (Routledge, forthcoming).

• Thamyris Mission StatementNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyPART 1: Overhauling: an Anatomy of Memorial Contestations1 Local Origins of a Global Series: the 1990s Wave of Anti-colonial IconoclasmNikolas Orr2 Commemoration and (Re)Conciliation: Memorial Culture under Apologetic Settler Colonialism in CanadaSeraphine Appel3 Contemporary Iconoclasm and AffectErnst van Alphen4 Traumatic Monuments: Decolonial Iconoclasms and “Southern” MemoriesRhea Dehn Tutosaus and Miriam Oesterreich5 To Remove, or Not To Remove, That Is the Question: the Troubled Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek Statues and Memorials in Democratized TaiwanDominic Meng-Hsuan YangPART 2: Facing: Making a Difference in Memorial Activism6 A Space of Freedom: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Memorial and the Future of AmericaDavid Ehrenpreis7 Conversations on Black Lives MatterTami Sawyer with Stacy Boldrick; Keith Magee with Richard Clay8 Activist Statement: Down with J. P. CoenRomy Rondeltap9 Colonial Reckoning: Reexamining the Slave Past in CataloniaGerard Llorens Decesaris and Adrià Enríquez ÀlvaroPART 3: Waking: Imaginings of a Post-Monument10 Dissolution of the MonumentsPaul Grace11 The Agency of the Void: When a Monument Falls, Absence Transforms into Powerful PresenceNausikaä El-Mecky12 Toppling Things: Artistic Approaches and Media Strategies in Dealing with Monuments—Alexandra Pirici, Morehshin Allahyari, Julius von Bismarck & Julian CharrièreUrsula Ströbele13 Taking a Knee: Permanence, Ritual and the Respect InsurrectionTomas Macsotay14 Artist/Activist Statement: In Search of an Aesthetic of Care: Recording BLM Protests and Documenting One’s Life in a Time of ReckoningRuth SomaloPART 4: Prolonged Engagements: Artistic Testimonies15 Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies and “Deep Time” in Ada Pinkston’s LandMarkedCory Wayman16 Empty Pedestals or The Aesthetics of TruthAda Pinkston17 Artist Statement: On Disgraced Monuments, their Resignification and the Recovery of Emptied SitesKrzysztof Wodiczko18 Epilogue: 2020 RevisitedTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyIndex

Tomas Macsotay is a Senior Lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, holding a PhD on eighteenth-century sculpture (Amsterdam, 2008). His six books and edited collections include, The Hurt(ful) Body. Performing and Beholding Pain (2017) and Recepción de Richard Wagner y Vanguardia en las Artes Españolas (2024).Nausikaä El-Mecky is tenure-track professor in Art History & Visual Culture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Since her PhD (Cambridge 2013) she has been developing her self-defined field of “dangerous images,” e.g., in the monograph The Creation of Dangerous Images in Iconoclasm, (Routledge, forthcoming).

• Thamyris Mission StatementNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyPART 1: Overhauling: an Anatomy of Memorial Contestations1 Local Origins of a Global Series: the 1990s Wave of Anti-colonial IconoclasmNikolas Orr2 Commemoration and (Re)Conciliation: Memorial Culture under Apologetic Settler Colonialism in CanadaSeraphine Appel3 Contemporary Iconoclasm and AffectErnst van Alphen4 Traumatic Monuments: Decolonial Iconoclasms and “Southern” MemoriesRhea Dehn Tutosaus and Miriam Oesterreich5 To Remove, or Not To Remove, That Is the Question: the Troubled Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek Statues and Memorials in Democratized TaiwanDominic Meng-Hsuan YangPART 2: Facing: Making a Difference in Memorial Activism6 A Space of Freedom: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Memorial and the Future of AmericaDavid Ehrenpreis7 Conversations on Black Lives MatterTami Sawyer with Stacy Boldrick; Keith Magee with Richard Clay8 Activist Statement: Down with J. P. CoenRomy Rondeltap9 Colonial Reckoning: Reexamining the Slave Past in CataloniaGerard Llorens Decesaris and Adrià Enríquez ÀlvaroPART 3: Waking: Imaginings of a Post-Monument10 Dissolution of the MonumentsPaul Grace11 The Agency of the Void: When a Monument Falls, Absence Transforms into Powerful PresenceNausikaä El-Mecky12 Toppling Things: Artistic Approaches and Media Strategies in Dealing with Monuments—Alexandra Pirici, Morehshin Allahyari, Julius von Bismarck & Julian CharrièreUrsula Ströbele13 Taking a Knee: Permanence, Ritual and the Respect InsurrectionTomas Macsotay14 Artist/Activist Statement: In Search of an Aesthetic of Care: Recording BLM Protests and Documenting One’s Life in a Time of ReckoningRuth SomaloPART 4: Prolonged Engagements: Artistic Testimonies15 Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies and “Deep Time” in Ada Pinkston’s LandMarkedCory Wayman16 Empty Pedestals or The Aesthetics of TruthAda Pinkston17 Artist Statement: On Disgraced Monuments, their Resignification and the Recovery of Emptied SitesKrzysztof Wodiczko18 Epilogue: 2020 RevisitedTomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-MeckyIndex