Unstable Borders: Lara Favaretto’s <i>Momentary Monument – The Wall</i> (2009)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2009, part of Lara Favaretto's installation, Momentary Monument – The Wall, collapsed due to structural problems. The accident was the culmination of a mass media campaign against her controversial site-specific work in Trento (Italy): a barricade of sandbags surrounding the statue of Dante, created by the sculptor Cesare Zocchi in 1896 (a symbol of “Italianity” for this border area, the statue had been commissioned by some pro-Italian intellectuals when the region was still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire). By mimicking the barriers used to protect monuments from bombs during the wars, Favaretto's installation aimed to spread a sense of alertness among passersby, revealing the contradictions of identity when conceived as self-contained. Beyond its explicit critique of monumentality, The Wall was interpreted by the mass media as a gigantic expression of a now globalized art, pitting it against the needs of the local community, just after the economic crisis of 2007-8.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".