Talk:Anti-monuments in Mexico

Redirect
Should Antimonumenta redirect to this page, once moved to the main space? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:33, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes. Unless someone wants to expand that concept. The es.wiki article is 60% about the anti-monument in CDMX. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 18:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Differences in concept, differences in name
Suggest page rename to Antimonumento or Antimonumentos of Mexico. Despite the similarity in name to Antimonument, it is a distinct artistic concept with a different history and a different meaning. This is not a value judgement, it is simply acknowledging it is a different thing. Antimonumentos - mainly in Mexico - are always installed ala guerrilla sculpture or protest sculpture and are installed as activism, always – as I have seen documented – addressing or reminding a specific political issue that is painful and under-discussed. Thus their anti-ness refers to their content and method of installation, and not the sculptural. Antimonuments are always, to my knowledge, officially commissioned through whatever authorities and deal with the form of the art work. That is, they challenge the formal considerations of what a monument has meant historically. So for example instead of a larger than life conquering general on a horse, the viewer experiences a descent into a space, like with the Vietnam Memorial or the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The anti-ness there is a formal and conceptual difference. While I appreciate the efforts of the authors, as it stands now it is very confusing. The confusion is added to by the abundance of articles on Latin American protest sculptures using Antimonument as a sort of generic title of the article. I would also suggest that the paragraph on origins be reduced and qualified as remote predecessor, as again it is not directly referring to the contents of this article. Hesperian Nguyen (talk) 13:54, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Puerto Vallarta
Should the memorial at Parque de las Mujeres in Puerto Vallarta be added to the list?

https://www.zonadocs.mx/2022/08/14/familias-reinstalan-memorial-para-victimas-de-feminicidio-en-puerto-vallarta-tras-remocion-del-ayuntamiento/

--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:18, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The only source I could find was Zona Docs and it doesn't use the term antimonumento, only memorial. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 18:39, 5 March 2023 (UTC)