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Memento Park

Young, Carey (2010) Memento Park. [Art/Design Item]

Type of Research: Art/Design Item
Creators: Young, Carey
Description:

Video

Additional Information (Publicly available):

Memento Park was shot in a statue park in Budapest which contains a large collection of monumental, socialist realist Soviet statues in poses of ‘suspended animation’.
We see the statues surrounded by suburban housing, open land, commercial signage, electricity pylons and a busy road with thundering industrial traffic. The bustling contemporary life passing by outside the park seems to undercut the statues' historical importance and impressive physical impact by giving them a provisional, peripheral, Robert Smithson-esque context.

Nevertheless, the seductive lushness of the surrounding greenery, shot mainly at the beginning and end of the day, gives these icons of propaganda a strange and beautiful serenity, like we are witnessing the dusk and dawn of an idyll.

Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > London College of Communication
Research Centres/Networks > Photography & the Archive Research Centre (PARC)
Research Centres/Networks > Transnational Art Identity and Nation (TrAIN)
Date: 2010
Copyright Holders: Carey Young
Funders: TrAIN, LCC, Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Cornerhouse (Manchester), mima (Middlesbrough)
Related Websites: http://www.careyyoung.com/past/mementopark.html
Related Websites:
Related Exhibitions: Memento Park (touring solo exhibition)
Projects or Series: Research Outputs Review (April 2010 - April 2011)
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
November 2010
January 2011
Cornerhouse, Manchester
February 2010
April 2011
mima, Middlesbrough
April 2011
July 2011
Material/Media: HD video
Measurements or Duration of item: 10 minutes 24 seconds
Date Deposited: 02 Nov 2011 14:58
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2023 04:46
Item ID: 2805
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/2805

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