Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.
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Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. is a conceptual art project by Sam Durant that critically reimagines and relocates U.S. monuments to address histories of colonial violence and Indigenous erasure.
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| Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. Context triple: [Sam Durant, notableWork, Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.]
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American Revolution Statuary in Washington, D.C.
American Revolution Statuary in Washington, D.C. is a collection of outdoor monuments and sculptures in the U.S. capital commemorating key figures and events of the American Revolutionary War.
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National Monument to the Forefathers
The National Monument to the Forefathers is a massive 19th-century granite monument in Plymouth, Massachusetts, commemorating the Pilgrims and their foundational principles of faith, morality, law, education, and liberty.
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C.
America’s Response Monument
America’s Response Monument is a bronze statue in New York City honoring the U.S. Special Forces soldiers who were among the first to fight in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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National Women’s Monument
The National Women’s Monument is a memorial in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dedicated to the women and children who suffered and died in British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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E.
Emancipation Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Emancipation Memorial (Washington, D.C.) is a 19th-century bronze monument in Lincoln Park depicting Abraham Lincoln with a formerly enslaved man, commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. Target entity description: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. is a conceptual art project by Sam Durant that critically reimagines and relocates U.S. monuments to address histories of colonial violence and Indigenous erasure.
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A.
American Revolution Statuary in Washington, D.C.
American Revolution Statuary in Washington, D.C. is a collection of outdoor monuments and sculptures in the U.S. capital commemorating key figures and events of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
National Monument to the Forefathers
The National Monument to the Forefathers is a massive 19th-century granite monument in Plymouth, Massachusetts, commemorating the Pilgrims and their foundational principles of faith, morality, law, education, and liberty.
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C.
America’s Response Monument
America’s Response Monument is a bronze statue in New York City honoring the U.S. Special Forces soldiers who were among the first to fight in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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D.
National Women’s Monument
The National Women’s Monument is a memorial in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dedicated to the women and children who suffered and died in British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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E.
Emancipation Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Emancipation Memorial (Washington, D.C.) is a 19th-century bronze monument in Lincoln Park depicting Abraham Lincoln with a formerly enslaved man, commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | conceptual art project ⓘ |
| aim |
to critique colonial narratives in U.S. public monuments
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to expose asymmetries in commemoration of white and Indigenous dead ⓘ to foreground Indigenous histories in the U.S. capital ⓘ |
| artForm | installation art ⓘ |
| artist | Sam Durant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concept |
juxtaposition of monuments to white and Indigenous dead
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re-siting of memorials ⓘ transposition of existing monuments ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Sam Durant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
colonial violence in North America
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erasure of Indigenous people from official memory ⓘ |
| depicts |
U.S. war monuments
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memorials to Indigenous people ⓘ memorials to white settlers ⓘ |
| field |
decolonial aesthetics
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memory studies ⓘ public art ⓘ |
| genre | conceptual art ⓘ |
| inLanguage | English ⓘ |
| locationImagined | Washington, D.C. GENERATED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Indigenous erasure
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U.S. history ⓘ colonial violence ⓘ monuments ⓘ public memory ⓘ |
| medium |
conceptual design
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proposal ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
addressing Indigenous erasure in national monuments
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critical engagement with U.S. commemorative practices ⓘ |
| partOf | Sam Durant’s body of work on monuments and memory ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Scaffold
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other monument-related projects by Sam Durant ⓘ |
| theme |
Indigenous representation
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colonialism ⓘ critical reimagining of monuments ⓘ historical revisionism ⓘ relocation of monuments ⓘ |
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