New Monuments for New Cities, is a collaboration between industrial reuse projects in North America that includes Austin’s Waller Creek Conservancy. 25 artists were invited to respond to the following prompt: “Imagine a monument for today, for your city, for your country, for your community. As monuments to a deeply embedded, singular, and imbalanced history of the Western world are torn down every day, what will go up in their stead on these empty pedestals and plinths, or in the open sky above public squares and urban plazas? What rises from the rituals of their removal? Who is figured on these shrines, who has chosen and installed them, and who walks and drives by them every day?

Captivating Not Captive will utilize a billboard structure, installing three different art works that reimagine advertisements featuring Hypermodern Beauty in place of traditional Western standards. Every ten days in the month of April a new image will be installed that, in relation to the others, builds a new language for beauty. On April 27 a live performance will add to the effect.