Memorial against Fascism Yesterday and Today

Hamburg is a place where traditional, nationalist monuments became sites of critique during the 1980s, leading the creation of so-called counter-monuments. However, many of these memorials have fallen into oblivion, such as the remarkable “Monument Against Fascism” by Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz. What does this memorial represent today? In relation with A SONG FOR ESTHER (see page 32), Stadtkuratorin Joanna Warsza and the artists Esther Shalev-Gerz and Candice Breitz engage in a discussion, contextualizing the memorial and exploring what an anti-fascist practice could mean today. The conversation and the following concert mark the beginning of Stadtkuratorin´s series on Counter-Monuments, which asks how to critically, sensitively and timely engage with the public sphere, within postmigrant society.