In our last episode, we met with Sonja Henderson, who discussed her work on the We Still Here monument as part of Chicago's Monuments Response Project. Today, we're meeting with Sadie Woods, the co-creator of this monument, so that she can tell us how sound and music impacted the narrative their work puts forth. Exploring the ways that music can act as a monument of it's own, Sadie's insights share a powerful and unique way that we can reinterpret oppressive monuments.

Credits

Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Diana Hernandez

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

Welcome to the 5th season of The Monumental Project! We're excited to kick off this season with a three-part series on Chicago's Monuments Response Project. This project commissioned a handful of artists to create their own monuments in the same space as controversial monuments on the city's lakewalk. In this first part, we meet with Sonja Henderson, co-creator of the We Still Here monument along with Sadie Woods who will be featured in the next episode. Sonja shares with us not only her insights in creating this specific monument in response to the equestrian General Sheridan monument in Chicago, but her overall social practice as she works to help mothers in Chicago understand and work through their grief.

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Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Madeline Bonner

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

What happens when Indigenous researchers respond to a Western museum calling a codex a "living ancestor"? In this season finale and our first episode entirely in Spanish, Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, Mixtec archaeologist and founder of Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi, and Mtro. Gibránn Becerra Álvarez, archaeologist and member of Voladores de Cuetzalan del Progreso, bring the voices that Part 1 was missing. They speak from their communities about codices as living heritage, rematriation, ongoing colonial processes, and why the definitions of "monument" and "cultural heritage" need to be rethought from the voices of the peoples themselves.
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¿Qué pasa cuando investigadores indígenas responden a un museo occidental que describe un códice como un "ancestro vivo"? En este final de temporada y nuestro primer episodio completamente en español, el Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, arqueólogo mixteco, fundador y director del Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi, y el Mtro. Gibránn Becerra Álvarez, arqueólogo e integrante de Voladores de Cuetzalan del Progreso, traen las voces que faltaban en la Parte 1. Nos hablan desde sus comunidades sobre los códices como patrimonio vivo, la rematriación, procesos coloniales vigentes, y por qué las definiciones de "monumento" y "patrimonio cultural" necesitan ser repensadas desde las voces de los pueblos.

Credits

Host: Diana Hernandez

Interviewer: Diana Hernandez/ Gilbert C. Correa

Production: Noah Price

Song Credits:

Melancholy Lull by Vital

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