Alternative Monument: Memory, Movement, and Public Space

What could a monument to migration look like today? How might experiences of movement, belonging, and transformation take shape in the city of Tunis? And how can emerging digital practices help us imagine monuments beyond fixed stone?

As part of a partnership between L’Art Rue and Alternative Monument, we invite participants to a three‑day workshop series at L’Art Rue Tunis to explore these questions collaboratively. The workshop is part of the ongoing Alternative Monument project, which reimagines public remembrance by transforming migration experiences into living monuments that weave together digital and urban space and gather collective memories shaped by migrant, queer and feminist voices, a breathing monument, a living archive and a participatory creative hub. From a decolonial perspective, the project challenges dominant narratives and foregrounds collective, inclusive and participatory modes of remembering and imagining.

Through conversation, sketching, performance, sound, 3D scans, and simple digital experiments, participants will reflect on experiences of movement, migration, and collective memory, exploring how these can take form in public space. Drafts for sculptures and 3D scans of objects may become part of the process, allowing ideas and gestures to transform into digital forms inhabiting the city. Augmented reality will serve as a tool for artistic experimentation, opening new ways of seeing, remembering, and sharing stories in urban spaces.

Workshop Details:

• Dates: 17–18 June 2026, 10:00–14:00
• Public presentation: 19 June, 18:00 (TBC) 
• Facilitators: Mikala Hyldig Dal & Siska
• Participants: 6 (honorarium €150)

We are looking for 6 participants from diverse backgrounds. Artists, migrants, activists, researchers, cultural workers, and anyone interested in questions of memory, migration, or public space are welcome to apply.

Application:

Please send a short email including:

1. A brief introduction about yourself
2. A few sentences about your interest in the workshop
3. Optional: 1–3 examples of work or projects
4. Optional: a short response to some of the workshop questions (text, sketch, image, or concept):

• What would a monument to migration be if it had no fixed shape?
• What if the monument were living bodies in space?
• What if it were a sound?
• What if it were a gesture?
• What if it were a space in the city?
• What if it were a dream?
• What if it were a way of seeing?
• What if it were an encounter?
• What if it were a whispered promise?

Send applications to: opencall@adfd.info

Deadline: 28 April 2026

Notification of participants: 4 May 2026

More info: www.adfd.info