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NEW MONUMENTS TASKFORCE

Social Practice, Participatory Research, Advocacy
Shaping the Past - Monument Lab & Goethe Institut
San Francisco, CA
2020

In 2020,  I founded New Monuments Taskforce, a conceptual art project guised as a fantastical municipal agency. Through this platform, I convened a group of Bay Area artists, cultural workers and organizers to form a task force, or a brain trust, to create public facing initiatives which create space for the dialogue, design and development of New Monuments in the Bay Area. This work is really an effort to create seats at the proverbial table, create timely points for entry into civic processes and challenge top-down notions of monument making.

Our inaugural initiative was The Relic Report. Though initiatives range from publications to exhibitions to collaborating with local artists/organizations to workshops, including:
a public art journal on monuments and memorials
a workshop centered on AR in the Public Realm
Digital Zine spotlighting innovative public art



Press

Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments



CC of NMTF Installation Descaux Kiosk, 2021 - 2022
Transamerica Building, San Francisco, CA 









Meantime Artist in Residents, 2023
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF)
Monument Loteria & Installation of Relic Report



New Monuments Taskforce -
Projects Panels, Presentations, Workshops, In- conversations

2024 
  • Pulsecheck: Monuments and Memorials with the San Francisco Arts Commission - HR&A, Forgetmenot History and
  • FORWARD 7: Monuments & Memorials with Forecast Public Art. Guest Editors and Thought Leaders. Forthcoming, Spring 2024.

2023
  • Keynote speaker Anna Lisa Escobedo. The Association for Art Museum Interpretation (AAMI) October 2023. Deyoung Museum
  • “Monument Loteria” as a Meantime Artist in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF). August 5, 2023. Public Program
  • CAM Lunch & Learn. Monuments and Memorials. August 2023.
  • Public Art Workshop. Headlands Center for the Arts & Kenneth Rainin Foundation.  Marin, CA. March 29th & 30th, 2023.
  • Monumental Reckoning. Panel. California Association of Museums CAM. Oakland, CA. March 2023. 

2022
  • Notes on New Monuments. NYU Asian/Pacific/American Studies Lecture by NMTF, Cheyenne Concepcion. Presentation. New York University, New York, October 2022.
  • SF Arts Commission “Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee (MMAC) Community Engagement Consultant on behalf of New Monuments Taskforce with Forecast Public Art. Led by Anna Lisa Escobedo. March 2022. 
  • Braided Strategies for a Collective Future Discussion with Joel Garcia, Rosten Woo, Mohamed Amjahid and NMTF, Cheyenne Concepcion. Panel. Goethe Institut Los Angeles, February 2022.
  • In the Future Online Publication by New Monuments Taskforce. Led by Anna Lisa Escobedo, through fellowship with NACLA San Jose. January 2022.

2021
  • Worlding Protocol, Artist Talk with NMTF, Cheyenne Concepcion. Gray Area, San Francisco, CA. October 2021.
  • New Monuments Taskforce, Artist Talk Litquake Literary Festival, California Historical Society San Francisco, CA. October 2021.
  • Artists Honoring Women. Artist Talk with NMTF, Cheyenne Concepcion. Art Builds Community for County of Santa Clara, CA. October 2021.
  • Public Art & Community Public Art Exchange (PAX) Presentation, Artist Talk Anna Lisa Escobedo. Virtual. July 2021. 
  • Monuments, Murals and Memorials, Artist Panelist with NMTF, Cheyenne Concepcion & Anna Lisa Escobedo, Western Neighborhood Projects, San Francisco, CA. June 24, 2021.
  • Monuments & Memory Culture in the Bay Area. Hosted conversation by Anna Lisa Escobedo with Dana King, Morning Star Gali, and Jeffrey Yip. Museum of African Diaspora. May 11, 2022. 
  • Transformers in Public Art Series, Midtown Detroit Inc x Knight Foundation, Cheyenne Concepcion, founder of NMTF as Panelist. Detroit, MI. April 21 2021.
  • Womxn Who Lead x Mujerxs en Accion with Camila Magrane, Zero1 Paseo Artistico, San Francisco CA.  March 20, 2021
  • Marble & Media Lab, public art workshop in partnership with Zero 1. San Francisco, CA. February - March 2021. 
  • How We Remember, Where We Remember, Artist Panelist. SF Urban Film Festival, San Francisco CA. February 19, 2021.
  • “New Monuments Must” Public Art Installation by New Monuments Taskforce, designed and created by Cheyenne Concepcion as part of SF Urban Film Festival. February 2021.
  • Relic Report Vol. 2 by New Monuments Taskforce, led by Cheyenne Concepcion. January 2021.

2022
  • Relic Report Vol. 1 by New Monuments Taskforce, led by Cheyenne Concepcion. October 2020. 
  • Shaping the Past Fellow, Monument Lab & Goethe Institut, Inception of New Monuments Taskforce by Cheyenne Concepcion. May 2020.