Using Maya Lin as a model, how would you proceed to design a memorial for a public event?

The day or event that I am choosing is South Africa 's Day of Reconciliation and Human Rights Day . The reason behind these days is to exemplify a global concentration on Apartheid and to aid global realization through art about oppression . The questions that would need to be addressed would be placement issues . A public square would bring more attention to the project as it would be accessible to all instead of in a museum setting where hours of operation are limited environment is a key device in creating a memorial and parks

seem to work especially well as the Vietnam Memorial worked for Maya Lin . Therefore the avenue of sculpture or architecture seems to be the way to create a memorial to allow the viewer a chance to be immersed in the art , or walk through it as in Maya Lin 's piece the viewer can walk down into the names and read them from one end of the wall to the other

For the Human Right 's Day Memorial something which may be seen up close yet have the stature of presence would be desirable . Since Washington D .C . has the art in the park with statues , the commission to be allowed a property allowance to this area would be preferential

The artwork itself in relation to these days will be examined and analyzed as to how they in turn propagate these dates in specific terms of remembering . The structures of the architecture as well as the composition will be given in depth process thinking so that a viable conclusion may be awarded in the essay for the inclusion of artwork and its significance to these two days

The repetition of trauma is precisely why these days were instated , so that such events do not transpire again

The focus on trauma is legitimate where nations or groups of people are trying to come to terms with a history of violence suffered or violence perpetrated . But the transnational discourse of human rights may give us a better handle on such matters than the transfer of psychoanalysis into the world of politics and history . For it is precisely the function of public memory discourses to allow individuals to break out of traumatic repetitions . Human rights activism , truth commissions , and juridical proceedings are better methods for dealing with historical trauma . Another is the creation of objects , artworks , memorials , public spaces of commemoration .Huyssen Present Past Palimsets 9

Another interesting remembrance initiated for Human Rights Day is the Sharpeville Remembered Exhibition . This is a commemorative portfolio involving 22 artists from the Vaal Triangle and Johannesburg . The portfolio includes 55 prints which depict each artist 's reaction to the Sharpeville Massacre . The artists reacted to the killings of 8 women and 10 children which ultimately marked the end of the Apartheid regime In police station . The artists recognized the peaceful demonstration but they also took into account for their art the police present (300 reinforcements . Other drastic measures the police took were to...