‘Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption’ was made as a response to an invitation to “propose a contemporary monument” for the city of Copenhagen. The proposal was for a national newspaper to be published, one random day without warning, in two versions: the normal version, and another version exactly like the normal, except that all text and numbers would be missing (except the newspaper’s name on top).  This project was realized in collaboration with one of the largest national daily papers in Denmark, Politiken.  The text-less version of the paper was given away for free along with any purchase of a newspaper that day.

Addressing the way in which monuments tend to memorialize specific events in time as holding historical significance and thus producing the very points along which history is seen to unfold (as the line connecting them up to the present), ‘Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption’ set out to memorialize, or to simply make visible, the network of image distribution as that which in a way regulates the visibility of such historical ‘events’ in the present. Whereas monuments, in the traditional sense, stand to represent a point where ‘history was made’ by breaking the world in two (before and after), ‘Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption’ meant to question the notion of history implicit in such monuments, by memorializing the very network which distributes images in a manner that suggests that there are no longer any monumental events, that history is over, or that it has delivered us to the present in which all we have are disposable images, meant to be consumed.

The project was realised July 6th, 2004, and distributed to Copenhagen and suburbs.