burned in south africa, people with disabilities more likely to lose their jobs. in the pandemic, black lives matter, profess shine a spotlight on racially motivated police violence, same sex marriage is being legalized in more and more countries, discrimination and inequality, or part of everyday life. for many we ask why, because life is diversity. to make up your own mind. d. w. lead for mines with 1st time that i saw it goes into those it for as a video and i really cried support it. and that's why i decided to as sadie or geology, thus was

a motivation for me to study and to see of my culture. ah, rising up to 53 meters tall that were the largest standing buddhist statues in the world. testament to buddhism in babylon. valley, the heart of afghanistan. the sculptures survived for 1500 years, in spite of islam and its ban or icons. then came the taliban. amidst international protests, the figures were blown up, erasing a part of afghanistan's rich history that was more than 20 years ago. now that the taliban is back in power. no one knows what will happen to what remains of the

buddhist family on the trauma lingers. mancilla elemy was a child when the buddhist were blown up. as his family in afghanistan didn't have a television, he only saw the destruction lighter, but he knew the buddha statues. well. my father told me it is something that, that, that as connection with religion, it is our culture is 3. i was hide. entity was part of our identity and we should keep it. we should save it for future generations. some want to preserve culture, others want to destroy it. but why is this about ideology, religion or the power to raise and rewrite history? what to islamist light the taliban? all the terrorist islamic state group want? why will members of i? yes, turning the destruction of the ancient multicultural city of palmera into media production that infidels can watch on television. is it religious fanaticism, or clever p r?

excuse while we're using? i for i'm sure it's definitely more about religious fanaticism than anything else i want. and it is quite clearly about taking up space and marking territory, does that song from flesh and if there's money to be made from that, or even better market. because then you can use it to buy weapons, hamilton and coffee. the black market of antiquities is flourishing. cultural property is valued world wide and it's protected. but why? what to cultural treasures, both alone and those of other countries mean to us in a room which may, if it's worth something to someone, but then it's worth protected. rather soon, because of cellulose about our history, it gives us strength and can be an inspiration. so then come on, foipnerd from a record of pass cultures is also a good reminder that our own on a also power sunday. i went ahead ah,

we travel 3350 years back in time to an ancient culture. revolutionary pharaoh, i cannot and elevated the sun, god art and to the center of worship, thus upsetting the ancient egyptian pantheon of god's art and represented by the disk of the son, protected the divine family, the pharaoh, his wife, nefertiti, and their daughters. here they all looked rather strange. i cannot and also revolutionized the art of portraiture, the distinctive elongated heads and not owed to any illness, as was previously thought, but reflect the new amana style. i cannot and broke radically with the past. he suppressed old coats abolished the priesthood of armen and made plenty of enemies as a result. when the pharaoh died after a 20 year reign his portraits were no longer wanted,

and many were destroyed. men hunters, an owncloud, him, and hunters people did not believe and what this man had initiated, a dragon in it. so they actively wanted to oppose it proposed gig. and you said tide or pony young. and as i us as deliberately destroyed any images and relieves of pharaoh, i cannot anesur on our gift ashton lawman de spar o h not wanting to do it. they were probably only given the order to destroy any visible traces of the sparrow after leaving the capital. ha ha tele amana, worcester, tired. oh, didn't be feel tired. sir stewart must emma jo twenties and proceed them it in that way he would disappear from the historiography of egyptian as once. and for all of us we ended the only female pharaoh did not fare any better. although hap, ship suit was often portrayed with the ceremonial beard like her male peers, a woman pharaoh was too much to handle for her contemporaries. they raised her

image. this scandalous woman was not to be remembered. oh, her chips, his teacher was also posthumously disgraced guilty by association. his inscription was partially scratched off. ah, ah, the eurasia of memory, with the for religious all power, political reasons is so common in history that there is even a specific term for it. dom knox, your memorial, censoring the memory of disagreeable predecessors. this practice was especially common in the roman empire. this panel painting to pics, empress septimus zadvydas in his family. the missing face is that of his son, gator, who was murdered by his own brother, who then had his image, a raised dance, offsets us money, images of certain personalities that were destroyed in both statues and

illustration. not one, almost apes, for example, that were done in such a way that i can see that something has been raised either side of it was virtually forbidden to talk about it. but every one could c h and i get as edith on the. so it was a warning at the same time as for the fight. some one was not only made to be forgotten in a sense, but the forgetting itself is what was remembered in all the conundrum. if posterity still remembers the erasure of a person after a long time with a really forgotten or are they remembered even more for being a raised with paintings, it's usually clear who was a raised and why. but that's not the case with sculptures. how do we know whether the boss to this prussian ruler was deliberately wacked in the nose? or if it simply fell off in museums, sculptures used to be given

a new nose and nose jobs so to speak. nowadays, they prefer to show the missing pieces on the face and to try to find explanations . the stinks of geisha is also missing its nose and research as a still trying to work out why. the creators of the cartoon series asterix apparently found the nose mystery. so intriguing that they decided to have their character openings accidentally break it off with the subtle message. don't have your nose in the air. ah, ah, jokes aside this was a serious in egypt where tampering with a statue was treated like a personal assault. either answer missed out to her,

every statue was a kind of substitute body for the owner, the and which was either placed in the temple or in the 2 redoing and through a ritual known as the opening of the mouth. this statue was granted a kind of vitality back to her. i nod leevins fe, cut so beautiful on vandy when its nose was broken off that the statue was deprived of its ability to breathe kite with her holden, india, and her. this would prevent the person that the statue symbolized from living in eternity in desert tart hours, heard din taught gossip, hassan in day, even cut. ah oh, do. even though greek statues were not quite a spirited, many of them are also missing paces. and it's often the most important part,

the head. it's evident that there has been a lot of modification, light, antique figures and imagery, a pagan gods, did not fit in with the rise of christianity. but heads were not the only things that rolled naked men were not welcoming christianity either. their more delicate parts were initially chiseled off later replaced by the famous lead, leave them under its fog light. thus, if you compare what happened in antiquity with what the taliban or the so called a slamming state of done antique pos, we don't have any images from the greek and roman antiquity that clearly show these pieces being desecrated. often like the toppling of statues for examples, wash foods or i know start one chandel. i'm start when stored saw it was done manhattan. it was transcribed into literature. but it wasn't done for publicity. lawsuits was eps dustin, and good notes of

a kind of womb shall kaiser hit. a roman emperor would never have promoted himself as someone who had taught the statue of his predecessors. unforgiving osgood in the 1st major dispute of a religious iconography occurred during the bicentennial empire. were images of jesus mary and the saints aloud, and could they also be worshipped? many followers of the orthodox catholic faith, believe the icons, a powerful protectors, but 8th century emperors considered them blasphemous. the cross was the only thing that mattered to them. emperor constantine, the 5th, was also an iconoclast. he persecuted people who worshipped icons and had those icons destroyed a cultural struggle that flared up again 800 years later. a new iconoclasm sweat through european churches during the reformation. the new

christian doctrine spread by martin luther was strictly against so called idolatry . churches were looted as a result and thousands of paintings along with other mediaeval artworks winter in flames. galilee vilnash thing k, the very strict calvinists in particular, had a very strong desire to assert their power in this way, after the advisor yamato for the month, ian now under the enforced ban of icons in such a way that was really destructive to get off coupled guys and some tie him of anna of get the may sometimes they also incited a crowd to participate in that which included looting whole wagner's management. it must also be said that these iconoclasm at times had a pure financial motor lead. and because items could be sold for a profit, or if they were made of gold or silver melted down. many people regarded the church as well as a huge food in their god. especially the so called indulgence trade,

where followers could secure their place in heaven with donations of a certain amount which generated a lot of income for the catholic clergy. anger about the churches. pomp and power was directed towards these practices, and it was difficult to control in some places. the great preacher, martin luther tried to pacify followers, but his influence did not reach across borders. iconoclasm raged in switzerland and later in england mm. mm. religion does not, the only thing that incited feelings of hatred. politics did 2 in 1789 during the french revolution, protest as man the barricades for liberty and other rights. once again, statues were beheaded. this time, those of the absolute, his kings. but the fight for freedom turned into chaos and brutal violence,

not only against people, but against icons and art from the royal palaces. anything that represented the hated feudal aristocracy. i bear gregoire a bishop and member of the national assembly condemned all acts of extremism and vandalism. he asserted the cultural property should be protected. the hut, it was good plague, but he coined something that still influences us to day. namely the idea of cultural heritage. as a man's older one should not destroy any preceding cultural monumentally comparable, even if they are connected to french pregnancy, because they are monuments of society as a whole thing. and because they were crafted by frenchmen, trucks in via phone, francois shuffleboard. but even if they are connected with french king, of course, they are still monuments that represent cultural heritage, does unavoidable. and this idea that contemporary science, she can inherit something from an earlier culture, just runs through the language of cultural heritage crew to alba,

ah radical rethinking with an impact since the hague convention of 1954 cultural heritage sites have been defined as something of global value that must be protected. there are now more than $1150.00 world cultural and natural heritage sites. listen by unesco. iran alone has a particularly high number of cultural heritage sites. 24. not only is not shed johannes square and is for hon. one of the largest and most beautiful sites in the world. it's also a tourist magnet, but these sites came on to political 5 in 2019. often a rainy in general was assassinated by the u. s. military then president donald trump threatened to attack sites, important for

a rainy and cold shut in case of retaliation. greta there was an unusual from it, lo statements put him on the same level as the taliban. and i asked, in particular ones, which has been very destructive in recent years as element 3 on williams. this rhetoric approved this method as an element of warfare. and that's why we want the destruction of cultural heritage recognized as a war crime for by she is. and as school does more, that means that the u. n. and the international court can become resources to protect cultural heritage sites and prosecute crimes against them as crimes against humanity. i mean that, oh bastard. and from worked in fact in 2016 the you and sentenced a member of an islamist terrorist script to 9 years in prison for the destruction of cultural heritage, the mausoleums and molly, in the desert city of tim buck too, was centuries old pilgrimage sites. there are all so she is that cultural treasures could be destroyed in the current war in ukraine,

but there have been no targeted attack so far. fortunately, most cultural heritage sites around the world have been spared destruction that monuments continue to stir up promotions it after the collapse of the soviet union. the fate of its monuments was called into question, especially the many statues of the socialist hero, lenin, b. f, g unveiled in what was then east berlin, became a political issue after the fall of the wall. people in berlin were no longer so keen to have what they regarded to be an ideologically contaminated statue. but in 1991 to the regret of some who had lived in east berlin, the statue of lemons started to be dismantled. it was broken up into a $125.00 paces, which were then buried outside berlin. in his film, good by linen director volcano,

becca resurrected the communist revolutionary and had him fly through berlin like some angel of utopian allusion. as if saying farewell to socialism, it place to seal of finality on the fact that the better world linen had fought so hard for had never come to be back to reality. after much debate in 2015 lennon or at least his head was exude. the 3 and a half ton head found a new resting place. inch band ow, citadel museum. after dodging initial flat from various authorities in west germans, who'd rather the socialist idol, stay buried. escobar qualitative when they're with the electrical factors that argued against antonio. and i thought that some people worried that russia was no longer the soviet union of quincy would demand that the entire monument be restored . others worried that backward looking for in the east germans would make it a pilgrimage, and that could blow up into a big problem. got obama to sign con. meanwhile, vandalism which

a protected species had taken up residence from the remnants of the ada. and so they had to be meticulously court by hand along with all their families before the pieces could be dug up in place of uncle before that was the common van. brandon. good. ah, all heroes, defunct rulers and dictators. whether they're in latin america or in the arabic speaking world, they all received the same treatment rebels in syria toppled bashar al sadi, father and predecessor on his behalf in the countryside. a statue of half as on our side was also destroyed in more severe the oppression, the more violent the retribution regime changes have often been celebrated by toppling monuments in europe. 2, ah,

the killing of a black man by police brutality, outraged millions, and not just in the usa, the black lives matter movement targets racism and its historical legacy. the statues of confederate generals and the slavery they defended the monuments had to go, ah, the same fate was in store for the rediscover of america, christopher columbus, re styled as a having of colonialism and target of heated emotional debate. history may be reevaluated, but the treatment of nearly disgraced monuments remains the same out of sight, out of mind. ah, i live for here, they go vaguely in the decades of lobbying for a suitable context, to be cri, had all these monuments and public spaces and not just for them to be left standing

or simply destroyed as also. and this can be researched under tested festa. i have been swept away unheeded into her head on the phone longer valid. i could understand such a wave of rage taking shape. but personally, i feel bad in the pitch of my stomach whenever something like that is just destroyed to prove in a sister at her. oh, not the monuments like this one to auto von. bismarck 1st chancellor of the german empire, he presided over the infamous berlin conference, but lay down regulations the carving of africa and the pacific into colonies. should he go the way of the confederate generals? no, said the artist, you wrote various and gold. instead, the statesman out of favor should don new college this summer. it took them 3 months of hard work to give the grand old white man a new paper mesh, a coat of many colors.

ah, i say let empties owns essentially i see a project as a kind of mediation where the rethinking takes place in people's minds. and we hope this temporary alteration will bring about such a rethinking fluid. on real quick monumental, you could say our project, monumental shadows is an intermediate stage. it has to be since once we're gone through the monuments will still be standing, there is always so it's not like we can pat ourselves on the back and say it was a job well done. or in any case, something more has to happen with. so we're hoping for some discussion at least in because these are monuments to violence and thank me. louder, devote the art project has already led many viewers to see oh bismark with new eyes . he's colored out, his skin may not have exonerated him, but perhaps it's demystified him. a little, this playful approach to this and other colonial era monuments to come in. other countries tends to raise some more basic questions and as endless, stay the end because of the material qualities of paper, monumental shadows raises

a question, could do monuments really have to be meant for eternity as this? and if they're not for eternity, do we have to have this kind of thing at all of us? ha, can't we think along more temporary lines adding, have the art has become saviours who can show the way out of the historical cycle of toppling monuments. one after another long requisite m, as in the stand, artists have to deal with whatever society or government can't manage any other way on line. and that includes an autistic perspective, a monuments raising anti monuments or handling them some other way, but found that maybe with holograms or something, whatever. it could also be something really exciting. interesting. i'm fine with creating something temporary that can be exciting to allen. i'm of the firm conviction that in a democracy it can be really wonderful to have so many different possibilities. the more possibilities, the heart of the choice, the debate over the monument to freedom in unity for germany's re unification raged for nearly 15 years. do we need a monument at all?

it's so where the result was this gigantic c saw really him, there would all were getting along quite well without this monument august, and i think some day, many people will say we could have done just as well without it. the mac, humans bow off the mac, you the permanent designation of a spot that you attribute some event to will live on. you formed the form that recognition takes, has softened a bit on it's no longer as figurative or marshal inform, bobby. and given our digitally dominated lives, it would be nice to have some kind of supplemental digital imagery that could in turn be changed some day. but the monument, it goes with and, and that marks the spot would remain unchanged. desk even in birmingham, not every one is willing to consign the empty space left by the buddhist statues to oblivion. but any attempt to restore them would cost millions of euro's money

desperately needed by the many starving afghans. clot speaks for the restoration of cultural heritage wants destroyed our digit home over 3 d printed solutions, the possibility. but who with these fate copies, sir? not the archaeologists mancilla me hopes the taliban will keep their promise and protect what remains of the buddhas. they are saying that they are protecting got her. nobody knows because i need them. they can change their mind and they do something they their authority because now there are new and then didn't know how to do it, but we don't know what's happening in future. will the taliban preserve? cultural heritage mansel elemy isn't the only one with doubts. this makes the work of conservators even more essential we said than of garrison national are a nation is still alive when the its culture is alive. so if you dont have culture you are not, we are nothing. so if you see it, well, why does the same be or nothing?

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