Tipping Points - choose your own adventure-





Congratulations!

You have been given the power to curate statues in public space.

Click on a link below to Install, topple or leave a statue where it is.


The Edward Colston statue, is much loved by many citizens of Bristol because he gave the city money. 

He was also involved in the slave trade, and was responsible for the enslavement of over 30,000 people.

Leave Edward Colston Alone

 Knock Down the Edward Colston statue!


Captain Cook at St Kilda in Melbourne is a nation symbol for Australia, but he also marks the beginning of dispossession of Australia’s Indigenous peoples from their land and genocide against them.

 Pull the statue down!

Leave it as it is


Brad Downey and  Ales “Maxi” Zupevc create and install a statue of Melania Trump near the town where she was born in Slovenia.

Destroy the statue of Melania Trump

Waste not want not! Make the burnt statue into a work of fine art.


It's June 10, 2021 in Boston USA. Christopher  Columbus has been celebrated as the person who discovered America for centuries despite his history of colonisation, enslavement and violence toward Native Americans.

Behead the statue




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