Monument to our Continuous Present
With the systematic erasure of sovereign cultures, there is an urgent need to address the material-based field of preservation. In a time where the rigid institution of preservation controls how the narrative of our collective history unfolds, how can a ‘crowd-sourced’ and dynamic process of preservation enhance the manner by which we construct and interpret our continuous present?
Monument to Our Continuous Present challenges the authoritarian process of preservation by suggesting a new methodology through the democratic recording of public sentiment. The new process is a continuous and real-time archiving of public opinion towards a certain and specific criteria. Through this experiment, I hypothesize on a scenario where the value of space and object is subject to time, thus is in need of constant and continuous evaluation.
The project hypothesizes that the new platform for conservation can become a democratic platform assembled from a continuous stream of data sent directly from the “community” in question. As a result, its real time visualization would be a fluid and augmented landscape, whose form and resolution would directly reflect public sentiment towards the present day cultural scenario - in the process transforming itself into the living archive.
