Thamyris Mission StatementNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroduction Tomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-Mecky PART 1: Overhauling: an Anatomy of Memorial Contestations 1 Local Origins of a Global Series: the 1990s Wave of Anti-colonial Iconoclasm Nikolas Orr 2 Commemoration and (Re)Conciliation: Memorial Culture under Apologetic Settler Colonialism in Canada Seraphine Appel 3 Contemporary Iconoclasm and Affect Ernst van Alphen 4 Traumatic Monuments: Decolonial Iconoclasms and "Southern" Memories Rhea Dehn Tutosaus and Miriam Oesterreich 5 To Remove, or Not To Remove, That Is the Question: the Troubled Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek Statues and Memorials in Democratized Taiwan Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang PART 2: Facing: Making a Difference in Memorial Activism 6 A Space of Freedom: Richmond's Robert E. Lee Memorial and the Future of America David Ehrenpreis 7 Conversations on Black Lives Matter Tami Sawyer with Stacy Boldrick; Keith Magee with Richard Clay 8 Activist Statement: Down with J. P. Coen Romy Rondeltap 9 Colonial Reckoning: Reexamining the Slave Past in Catalonia Gerard Llorens Decesaris and Adrià Enríquez Àlvaro PART 3: Waking: Imaginings of a Post-Monument 10 Dissolution of the Monuments Paul Grace 11 The Agency of the Void: When a Monument Falls, Absence Transforms into Powerful Presence Nausikaä El-Mecky 12 Toppling Things: Artistic Approaches and Media Strategies in Dealing with Monuments--Alexandra Pirici, Morehshin Allahyari, Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière Ursula Ströbele 13 Taking a Knee: Permanence, Ritual and the Respect Insurrection Tomas Macsotay 14 Artist/Activist Statement: In Search of an Aesthetic of Care: Recording BLM Protests and Documenting One's Life in a Time of Reckoning Ruth Somalo PART 4: Prolonged Engagements: Artistic Testimonies 15 Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies and "Deep Time" in Ada Pinkston's LandMarked Cory Wayman 16 Empty Pedestals or The Aesthetics of Truth Ada Pinkston 17 Artist Statement: On Disgraced Monuments, their Resignification and the Recovery of Emptied Sites Krzysztof Wodiczko 18 Epilogue: 2020 Revisited Tomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-Mecky Index.