Interco(a)stal is one of ten projects selected for Monument Lab’s 2026 Re:Generation cohort, a national initiative supporting community-centered approaches to rethinking monuments and reshaping public memory.
Monument Lab works with artists, scholars, and communities to critically examine the stories that monuments tell and those they leave out. Their practice centers public engagement as a means of questioning dominant narratives, creating space for dialogue, and expanding who has a voice in shaping how history is remembered. Atlantic Black Box inscribes its work within the same creative and broadly participatory historical recovery movement.
By taking the Wyoming Evocation as a starting point, the Interco(a)stal project opens the monument to new questions, perspectives, and forms of engagement—transforming it from a static representation into a shared site of investigation and meaning-making.
What we’re doing
Reinterpreting a monument as a site of inquiry, reflection, and dialogue.
Recovering overlooked histories, particularly those connected to Black and Indigenous maritime worlds.
Reading critically between the ribs of archives, narratives, and public memory.
Returning stories to public life through artistic practice, community engagement, and place-based experience.
Building relationships across communities, disciplines, institutions, and ways of knowing.
Developing a participatory public memory methodology rooted in historical recovery, narrative return, and ethical collaboration.
Sharing what we learn so others can adapt, critique, and build upon the work.
